Why Progressive get rid of your Teslas

It was not enough that Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz. He did it on X, the social media platform under the direction of Elon Musk, who took over in 2008 as CEO of the Electric Vehicle Company.

Kelly made the reason to give up the car that once made progress as well as automotive and environmental services: Musk and his politics.

“Every time I get into this car for the last 60 days, it reminds me of how much damage Elon Musk and Donald Trump stimulate our country,” said Kelly.

Other well-known personalities have also unloaded Teslas, including actor Jason Bateman, who said it was “ride around with a Trump sticker” as in October.

Music star Sheryl Crow made a video to announce that she had sold her Tesla. She donated the money from the sale to NPR and always released: “My parents said that they had to decide what they have to decide to decide.

Musk’s connection to President Donald Trump and the emergence of the Department of Government Efficiency and its extensive work cuts by the federal government were the turning points for many progressive, which had the EV that remains the best -selling electric car in the country.

But Musk’s influence on conservative politics has inspired a growing segment of people to ward off their Tesla because they do not want to be connected to Musk and have connected his political actions to their property of vehicles produced by his company. It is a connection that many have said that they want to solve themselves by getting rid of their once broken groundbreaking cars.

Tesla did not answer several inquiries about comments.

In the United States, Teslas still makes 42% of sales of electric vehicles, even with the youngest dips.

Anecdotal and automotive data, however, indicate that the Tesla brand scores a goal. The global number of mobility of S&P showed that the Tesla registrations decreased by 11% in January, while other manufacturers such as Ford, Chevrolet and Volkswagen recorded an increase in the registrations of the electric vehicle by 44%.

Ronnie and Tarita Bagley bought a Tesla Y a year ago who thought that Musk was an environmental revolutionary. But in one month after Doceats’s work under the Trump administration, the Bagleys found the fate of EV in their garage.

“We had to get rid of this car,” said Ronnie Bagley. “Our personal morals and values ​​were contradicting what it represents, which is division, inequality and chaos.”

And so two weeks ago they exchanged their Tesla against a Cadillac Lyric, an electric SUV.

“It was refreshing to get this Tesla off our hands,” he said.

Megan Paulus, a preschool teacher in New Jersey, took over the Tesla Y of her husband when he died in December 2021. Paul said her husband was a “big fan of Elon and Tesla”.

She said they sold the stock to buy the car. As the owner, Paul now said: “I am very connected to the story of how we got the car that it was my husband’s car.”

But Musk’s movements affect them. It is even more important that she is worried about being tied to him and his politics by driving a Tesla. The company’s dealers and the cars themselves have been vandalism goals in the past few weeks.

“I no longer want to be associated with these people. While she said she was” very satisfied with the car as a car “, the actions of Teslas CEO are allowed to address the vehicle, so that Paul said she had to distance herself from the man while driving the car.

“I have one of these magnets slash stumbling stickers,” she said. “It says:” I bought the car before I knew how terrible Elon Musk was. “I did it as a placeholder because I was very concerned about selling the car.”

While Musk’s public image has disappointed many, Jerel Chacko, the emergency room, said that he could separate the CEO’s actions from the vehicle.

Chacko from Holmdel, New Jersey, bought his Tesla y in 2020. “Back then, Musk was not the same kind of public personality as today,” he said. “The perception was at the time that he concentrated on the environment, sustainability and space travel.”

Chacko said “It is a shame” that more people cannot follow. “Make unusual statements? But he bought the car because it is” a good product in my head, he and Tesla are two completely separate units.

For some Tesla owners, it was worrying that Trump acted as a car seller last week and had exhibited a fleet of Musk’s car on the lawn of the White House.

“What was that?” said Andrew Johnson from Scottsdale, Arizona. He rents his Tesla through the Turo Car app. “This exhibition made me sick from the point of view of the President of the United States that presses cars for the richest man in the world?”

“I’m not even driving it, but I don’t even want it anymore,” he said. “This is a man who was totally reversed in my eyes.

That was also Bagley’s point when selling her Tesla. “You have to stand morally,” he said. “Yes, you can say that it’s just a car.

Tonya Parker from Atlanta neither could. She bought a Tesla a year ago and recorded all upgrades. “It was knitted,” she said. “But I never loved the car.”

As a musk began to fight for Trump and to take up for his contempt for diversity, justice and inclusion, reinforced Parkers aversion to her car – and the man -.

“I wanted to make an explanation,” she said, after selling her Tesla a few weeks ago. “Some of my friends were disappointed in me that I bought the Tesla.

Paul, the teacher, also seems to want to get out, but she is in the process of buying a house and getting your car about the resale value. If she continues from Tesla, she plans to get another eV.

“I was sold to electric vehicles,” she said.

Tamaira Johnson, who lives near San Diego, is also sold on EVS and describes the skills of the Tesla as “genius”.

“Tesla is still leading circles for his colleagues, performance. He and his infrastructure network of quick charging options,” said Johnson.

“But” added Johnson, “I like it to represent an Elon Musk vehicle, no.”

It has two Teslas and rents synonymously for passive income via Turo and drives the other.

It will be difficult for them in the financial and business considerations. “Many like me have to drive it out for a few reasons,” she said, adding that the value of the models 2020 to 2023 had written off in some cases, which makes a trading model problematic. “And with Elon’s unfavorable popularity, the value of the brand is exposed to a larger dive,” said Johnson. “So when I put the wrong value in a vehicle, it leaves me.”

Bagley and Parker said they had the “luck” of receiving business in which they sold their Teslas, which enabled them to pay off their loans.

However, Johnson said she likes her cars and looks at her reliably. “When it comes to musk, they would see them abandoned everywhere on the side of the road,” she said. “It will be difficult until the competitors catch up with the technology.