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Fortune
Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Tesla Q2 earnings just revealed clear risks to its core EV business from a second Trump presidency

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Credit: Beata Zawrzel—NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s full-throated support of Donald Trump threatens to damage Tesla in more ways than one. 

His embrace of the former president’s brand of politics has already led to a growing exodus of customers in California to his direct rival Rivian, another EV-only carmaker founded in the Golden State. 

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