Tesla's electric car sales in Europe dropped by 45% to around 36,000 units in the first quarter of 2025, according to industry data from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. This decline was the largest among major car groups and occurred despite a growth in overall electric vehicle sales.

Singer Grimes, who dated Elon Musk and has three children with him, recently returned to social media after taking a break from the internet. She was dismayed by what she saw on her feed on X (formerly Twitter), calling it a "really dark" place that contributes to depression, bitterness, and harm to society. Grimes believes social media is unhealthy and feels like a "ghost town of depression, bitterness and pictures of beautiful women doing sext things," leading her to call out the moral failure of all social media apps.

Cristina Balan, a former Tesla engineer, was allegedly threatened with deportation of her entire engineering staff by Tesla lawyers after she tried to report a major safety issue with the Model S's braking system in 2014. She claimed that instead of addressing the issue with Elon Musk directly, Tesla's lawyers threatened to deport all members of her team, who were waiting for green card applications at the time, if she did not comply.

Owen McIntire, a 19-year-old from Missouri, faces up to 20 years in prison after being charged with firebombing a Tesla dealership in Kansas City on March 17. The incident was part of a wave of arson attacks on Tesla dealerships allegedly in retaliation for Elon Musk’s ties to the Trump administration. Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to crack down on the attacks, and FBI Director Kash Patel announced McIntire's charges, celebrating the second Tesla-related arrest in a week.