"Tesla’s board in March contacted multiple executive placement firms to begin a search process for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk at the helm of the embattled electric car company, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night, citing multiple anonymous sources."
Musk's politics and association with Trump blamed for tumbling sales worldwide. (Tesla's customer base tend to be left/environmentally concerned. Musk is now their kryptonite.)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/business/tesla-board-elon-musk-ceo-search/index.html
Tesla can get rid of Musk, but the damage is already done.
As various German companies found after WW2. It's quite hard to shake this particular kind of bad association.
If they do replace #ElonMusk, they might have to change the company name in the long run, too.
That said, "United States" could potentially be looking at a re-brand in a few years, likewise, because of the same person. (-:
@JdeBP @lyndamerry484 @cstross I ask myself which will be the first state to break ranks and leave the 'Union'
@hoare_spitall: South Carolina, in 1860, it seems :)
@volkris @JdeBP @lyndamerry484 @cstross
Amusing, but I was using the future tense, not the past.