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The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war


Tesla hopes to slow down Trump’s tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.

They similarly warned that imposing "broad-based tariffs will disrupt production at US assembly plants," Reuters reported. "Automakers cannot shift their supply chains overnight, and cost increases will inevitably lead to some combination of higher consumer prices, fewer models offered to consumers and shut-down US production lines, leading to potential job losses across the supply chain," the group said. Those tariffs threatened to spike costs beyond the current rate of nearly $500,000 per mold at a time when the Cybertruck hasn't been selling well, InsideEVs reported.

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