The world protests against the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, on their role in the Trump administration have coincided with a sales fall and stock problems in the electric car manufacturer.
However, little will be known about the precise impact on the final result of Tesla, until the company publishes its profit report on Tuesday afternoon. That announcement has implications for Musk, the richest person in the world, who derives much of his wealth of his Tesla holdings.
The launch of the new financial details comes as some shareholders have asked Musk to give up their role from the White House and return full time to Tesla’s helm.
Musk, whose temporal state as a government employee expires next month, will probably face questions about his plans during a telephone conference with analysts after the release of profits.
“We see this as a schedule along the way,” said Dan Iives, managing director of Variable Income Rent of the Wedbush investment firm and a Tesla reinforcement for a long time, in a memorandum to investors on Sunday.
Tesla’s actions have fallen in approximately half from a historical maximum in December. Most of these losses have come since President Donald Trump assumed office and Musk began his controversial governmental efforts for cost reduction as head of the newly created government efficiency department (Doge).
Tesla is still one of the best electric car manufacturers, but the company faces a growing competition, especially Chinese companies such as Byd.
Tesla vehicle deliveries during the first three months of 2025 fell approximately 13% compared to the same period of the previous year, the company said earlier this month.
When Tesla announced the decrease in deliveries, the company did not mention its CEO but did it say That a “change of model lines and in the four factories led to the loss of several weeks of production in the first quarter”, but added that “the ramp of the new model and continues to function well.”
President Donald Trump talks to the media next to the CEO of Tesla Elon Musk, with a Tesla car in the background, in the White House in Washington, on March 11, 2025.
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Tesla sold less cars in 2024 than the previous year, marking the first decrease in sales year after year of the company in more than a decade, The profits published in January were.
As rivals have challenged Tesla’s domain in the electric vehicle market, the company has promised a future income flow of autonomous taxis, also known as Robotaxis.
Musk announced at the end of January that the company would launch its Robotaxi trial program in Austin, Texas, in June. But in a matter of days, the Competitor based in China Byd announced the advances in autonomous driving technology, which the company said it would be included in models that cost as little as $ 9,600.
Tesla has a more complete national supply chain than its American cars rivals, but the company is still vulnerable to automatic tariffs of the type that President Trump imposed earlier this month, according to Musk.
“To be clear, this will affect the price of the pieces in Tesla cars that come from other countries. The impact on cost is not trivial,” Musk said in a Publish in x At the end of March.
Gordon Johnson, CEO and founder of the data firm Glj Research, who is bassist in Tesla, expressed his concern about the company in a memorandum to investors on Monday, saying that the car manufacturer faces a combination of “operational, financial and reputable challenges.”
“Does Tesla face an existential crisis?” Johnson added.
