Oh boy, did this Question of the Day end up feeling a little bit like prophecy! We had no idea that the falling stock price would become a national crisis when we wrote it, but it seems so obvious now.

Tesla now faces headwinds from the president Musk helped elect. Trump, a frequent EV critic, has called for scrapping EV subsidies and policies that have added billions of dollars to Tesla’s bottom line. Musk has dismissed the impact on Tesla of losing subsidies, saying rivals would suffer more.