Tesla has been put through the ringer in its CEO Elon Musk's absence. The EV maker saw earnings plummet in the first quarter of this year, with net income cratering an astonishing 71 percent since the first quarter of last year. Musk's highly problematic embrace of far-right ideologies and a disastrous gutting of the federal government has spawned an international counter-Tesla movement, eviscerating sales across key markets. Now that the Trump administration is planning to revoke EV tax credits and kill incentives for battery production in the US with its latest budget, the industry is already on shaky ground. Trump's […]