As Trump’s trade war with China escalates, the White House appears increasingly cautious about Elon Musk’s involvement in foreign policy discussions owing to potential conflicts of interest. Previously the Tesla CEO and top Trump advisor had been given relatively free rein to host high-level meetings with global leaders,

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is frontrunner to win a $10 billion contract to build Donald Trump's proposed domestic missile shield, called—perhaps inevitably— the“Golden Dome.” Musk’s firm has formed a consortium with two other companies with close Trump ties—defense start-up Anduril,

The US president allegedly prevented Elon Musk from attending a secret meeting concerning China (a sensitive issue). This is what the American news site Axios reports. The meeting was supposed to take place on 21 March at the Pentagon,

Some lines are running at a small fraction of their previous capacity, and a handful of production teams have been thinned out by more than half.

Tesla sold only 6,406 units in early 2025, half of the previous quarter's sales. Broader Tesla sales also fell 13% amid increased competition.

When launching the production version of the Cybertruck in late 2023, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that the vehicle program would reach 250,000 units a year in 2025: “I think we’ll end up with roughly a quarter million Cybertrucks a year,