{"id":32754,"date":"2025-02-07T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/elon-musks-journey-from-climate-champion-to-backing-ev-bashing-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T11:55:34","slug":"elon-musks-journey-from-climate-champion-to-backing-ev-bashing-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/elon-musks-journey-from-climate-champion-to-backing-ev-bashing-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musk believes Tesla\u2019s rivals are more vulnerable to Trump\u2019s moves against electric vehicles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s attempts to slash incentives for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/electric-cars\">electric cars<\/a> would cause sales of the vehicles to plummet, with this effort cheered on by a seemingly confounding supporter \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and erstwhile champion for action on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said that he \u201cwill revoke the electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American auto workers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/07\/elon-musk-transformation-trump-climate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musk believes Tesla\u2019s rivals are more vulnerable to Trump\u2019s moves against electric vehicles Donald Trump\u2019s attempts to slash incentives for electric cars would cause sales of the vehicles to plummet, with this effort cheered on by a seemingly confounding supporter \u2013 Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and erstwhile champion for action on &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk\u2019s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/elon-musks-journey-from-climate-champion-to-backing-ev-bashing-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk\u2019s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}