"I think these are the worst quarterly production & delivery numbers I've ever seen for Tesla," wrote Omar Qazi, better known as @WholeMarsBlog.

It’s pretty easy to draw a straight line from the $250 million Musk reportedly spent to get President Trump elected last year and his work with DOGE, to the growing peaceful protests that have sprung up at Tesla dealerships both in the U.S. and abroad.

As it stands, Musk and Tesla are contending with recalls, protests, a 13% drop in sales and looming tariffs — so why is its stock rallying?

U.S. automaker Tesla sold 78,828 China-made electric vehicles in March, down 11.5% from a year earlier, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) showed on Wednesday.

Tesla reported this morning that sales estimates have dropped 13% from last year. Val Kilmer, the longtime Hollywood star known for roles in "Top Gun," "Heat" and "Tombstone," among other films, died this week.

Rivian just released a miserable production and delivery report for the first quarter of 2025. The company produced 14,611 vehicles, but only sold 8,640 of them, a 36 percent drop year over year. As noted in TechCrunch,

Tesla sales have plummeted to their lowest level in three years after a backlash against its boss Elon Musk. The electric car maker delivered almost 337,000 electric vehicles in the first three months of 2025,

Musk’s Tesla has become a political symbol as the tech billionaire spearheads the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), a Trump White House task force involved in firing tens of thousands of federal workers in a push to drastically shrink the government and improve its spending efficiency.

Tesla deliveries dropped to the lowest number in nearly three years — at a time when some key rivals are seeing growth.