What will happen to America, EVs and Tesla with Donald Trump in charge

Like your channel very much. Like Australia very much. Seems your past projections regarding Musk/Tesla have pretty much spot on. .Many of my relatives and friends hate Elon Musk. Can not figure out why they are so negative. Elon's/Space X has saved the U.S, Space program(NASA). Boeing, in the past 10-12 yrs. has received 2X the government $$ but has had almost 0 success with their space craft. They have yet to successfully return an astronaut from the Int'l Space Station. Tesla is the "only" U.S. auto manufacturer to make a profit marketing EV's. His AI progress is among the best. His brain research on the medical side seems to be exceptional. Now he will hopefully help President Trump remove some of the horrendous government spending waste. Thanks for supporting Trump! Also like Sky News Australia.

Will Tesla still be able to make a profit in ea vehicle if not only the tax rebates went away, but also the carbon credits it sells to traditional ICE manufacturers? That’s another big subsidy that Tesla has benefited immensely from

Tesla should be a big part of US Govt’s fleet. Trump’s official presidential car should be bullet-proof Cybertruck

Oh how's the internet dumbest tesla stan doing? Oh that's right, supporting a fascist regime.

Any Electric Vehicle with a battery capable of thermal runaway should be banned. Current owners should be banned from indoor parking and especially multi-storey car parks as they make an ideal target for terrorist activities.

Hey guys. The Electric Viking is Autralian not American! He has not voted in the US election. Also you can't have him he is ours and we plan on keeping him.

I have a feeling the bromance will sour between Trump and musk. Think of all the people that worked for Trump and now regret it. There is only room for one in the spotlight and Trump will likely win that battle.

The first thing Donald Trump needs to do even before the border is to ban all brands of electric vehicles in the united states.

The democrats lost Elon Musk support when their president (Joe Biden) came out and praised GMs Mary Barra ? and praised her and GM on national TV saying that they are leading the EV market when Tesla is the one that's leading the world in Ev development

One of the weaker presentations Sam has done.

Musk = Tesla = No Tesla in my garage EVER, No Power Wall Ever. Musk can rott in hell for all I care.

Long term elon will fail because his focus is on investors not delivering actual products alot of talk and reveals no substance

Example cyber truck what a pile of garbage

Trump is graded on a curve, all the lies he states are the real FAKE NEWS, so please don't take the media that also lies to us as the only source of this BS.

I just did >1000m on FSD hands off the wheel. Only interventions for getting in the wrong turn lane.

It means western democracy has had a good run, but it is over.

Solar is going to explode as well as battery storage no matter who is president. Nothing is going to stop the Alien Dreadknot!

The racism is real and no longer subversive. People in the states have become more emboldened because of Trump. So I disagree with you on that.

I dunno. I used to be a Tesla fan years ago. Now, I'm not going to be doing anything that will put one dime in Elon Musk's pocket. I dropped Twitter when he bought it. Tesla will never be on the table for me. I have morals and a sense of decency. Those things are important to me, even if they're not important for other people. I'm not other people.

Didn’t you bugger up your leg once before? lol

Hi Sam. Just a reminder that your beloved Communist Red China is the world’s largest totalitarian police state where the people are subjectsof the Chinese Communist party not citizens of the nation, where critics of the government’ disappear’, whose ambition is to invade and subjugate the free people of Taiwan.

1- it is the states, not the federal govt, which would licence self-driving. No chance of that in the future 4 years.

2- trump will unsign the Paris Agreement, removing the requirement for manufacturers to comply with CO2 standards. This will severely impact EV sales (at least initially) and completely finish hybrids.

3- tesla is more dependent on credits than anyone else, in fact take away credit sales and they would be losing money.

4- trump isn't going to compete with china (and europe), he is going to block them behind tariff walls. The manufacturers will just keep making the same cars without updating as they did in Australia/NZ and south america in the 1970s and 80s.

...keep going

Hey, living here in the US i honestly feel that it has gotten worse, especially when covid started it seemed things went downhill a lot. To be fair though that's just my perspective from 1 spot of the north east in the manafacturing rust belt. So I'm curious why you feel the US has been improving over the last 8 years or so. What are you seeing or hearing that makes you feel that the situation is improving? I just ask because I'm genuinely curious. 1 thing we can agree on is the role of media not helping things.
Also to be fair, I have seen solar popping up everywhere lately despite living in a rural area. In the last 5 years alone we went from a single 2.5mw instillation to now having 5 new ones all ranging between 2.5 - 5mw and just passed a 6th 3mw array being built. It use to be an old driving range about 20 acres but now the entire thing has poles installed and a few rows of pannels already in. Pretty wild and exciting to see how rapidly the area is changing even for a small town.

I just asked Google and Siri who invented the lightbulb to double check… No mention of your man… Just an American entrepreneur by the name of Thomas Jefferson

I'm feeling great again! How about you?

Who knows which way Trump is going to go on this? It's going to be interesting to see how Musk is going to use his influence.

I hope EV prices will go down not because of incentives. I am from Italy and at the moment only rich people can afford a Tesla, I can afford a 25K EV, 41K or more is just too much for me. I'm currently saving for the model 2 by 2026.

FSD and Tesla. it's a big lie and joke.

On media sensationalism I give you:
“They are eating the pets”
Donald Trump

On America: We are living through the decline of the American Empire. The average American, is forecast to live a shorter life than their parents, be less educated than their parents, have a lower standard of living than their parents, less likely to own their own home than their parents, have less wealth mobility than their parents. Etc. etc. these are the things that are real and that are material. Graphs showing GDP and the stock market going up and inflation decreasing really don’t matter when confronted with the material conditions of the population. Biden Harris offered no solution to or even acknowledged these conditions and they got boned as a result. Trump both acknowledged the problem and offered a solution which is more than both democratic candidates. Unfortunately the solution he offered was “immigrants are coming to eat your pets and rape your women” and “china stole all your jobs”. Which is both insane, racist and will not make anything better for the American working class. 🤷‍♂️

The US, 4% of the world, are not exceptional, not smarter, not stronger, not more innovative than the rest of the world.
They never have been.
Just violently opportunistic.
Now they are in terminal decline and eclipse,
and no supremacist wishful thinking will change this.

On the subject of wonderfulness of the USA, can you do a program on which models of EVs are on sale in the Gaza strip right now?

I guess we'll see how long The Orange One and Elon stay in bed together, since we know DT loves Big Oil. Toss in Vladimir, and who knows what'll happen...

Hold your nose and applaud the people of USA for chosing a fantastic positive future. Who cares if Trump says stuff that upsets the woke and is a bit gauche at times. Compared to his opponents he is going to release the US from the absurd Democrat woke Orwellian present (alreadt is - not a future). Tesla is going to fly and so is Spaces X and so is the Boring company, AI and Neuralink. You are right in saying that Tesla is goind to be x3 in valuation. And de-regulation and slashing the Federal red tape. Just A DREAM

Tesla will strive, but America will be hell in a handbasket!

Trump will pivot towards Elon's Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company as well as producing oil and helping US ICE companies to invest in EV for the future and to diversify into electric motors for trains, cargo ships and Hyperloop. Trump will use Elon's genius to transform US businesses and infrastructure on an optimum strategy.

Every autocratic fascist conversion did so started with short-term economic gains as motivation. Then it collapses.

Nobody said he’s hitler, he said he wished he could have generals like Hitler did, and his former wife, said he used to read old Hitler stuff. And when he said they are poisoning the blood of our country, meaning immigrants. Hitler said the same words about the Jews, nobody is saying he’s Hitler, trump just happens to say similar things, that’s all. And I often remember others forget, Arnold in the past said he admired some things about Hitler, you can google it, I don’t hate Arnold, I think he’s a great guy, but trump is very dishonest, and is only out for himself.

Make Tesla great again

You’re bang on about the media. Don’t worry about ruffling feathers. Just give us your opinion without any apology. We can handle it. Keep up the good work.

Tesla was hammering US EV makers and unless you consider competition from BYD - and other Chinese EV makers, I still don't see how removing EV incentives adds up to a net gain for Tesla. Yea, Tesla might still be able to generate profits without the subsidies but at reduced profitability. I doubt that Harris would have been much more friendly to Chinese EV makers trying to sell in the USA relative to Trump. So I don't see any real gains for Tesla profitability via a Trump presidency relative to a hypothetical Harris presidency.

Maybe we should give the tort system 5 years to reform or be destroyed.

I hope Trump increases EV credit for USA car makers.

Never trust Trump on facts, but listen to his promises and threats. The problem, or relief depending on your political orientation, is Trumps incompetence, inability to empathize and narcism which makes him uniquely dangerous as a president. He is loyal to none but himself and has left a substantial number of former lawyers, contractors, and politicians either in jail, bankrupt or disgraced.
Will Trump support Elon Musks plans? It depends 100% on what Trump gets out of it. Musk most likely thinks he can outmaneuver Trump to get what he wants and Trump thinks the same, but Trump has the strongest hand being in a position of total power and one that Musk can never obtain, at least not with the current Constitution.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the inflation and tariffs and how it affects peoples economy to purchase expensive items like Teslas, might take a sales hit.
Also worth mentioning is in dictatorships the elite is untouchable - above the law, this also means they are outlaws and must resort to extra judicial methods to protect themselves. This means increased likelihood of opponents jailed, "deadly accidents" and and rapid spread of corruption, nepotism at all levels of government dramatically increases. One quick look at Trumps business records shows mind-boggling number of fraudulent verdicts(selling fake products, discrimination, racism, sexual assault, insurrection, theft and more) is a somber warning of whats to come. The worst is yet to come. Trump used RFK to capture votes, but RFK will be sidelined. Musk helped Trump to power and he will also be removed as soon as he has spent his usefulness to Trump. Trump is an extremely dangerous man but also a fairly predictable man: It is always all about himself all the time

Trump is the douchebag of the century

Alan Lichtman never wrong with his analyzations. Worked really well 5 November 2024 smh

We need to think outside the box. Buy a rickshaw and have the Teslabot literally run you around town.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I have a huge amount of respect for you Sam but I disagree on Trump. I genuinely hope I am wrong but I believe he is going to be a disaster for the vast majority of people on this planet.
I don't think he is hitler in the sense of directly murdering millions of people but not far off in terms globally significant and historical suffering.
Like I said I hope I'm wrong!

Since I don’t want a car that can drive itself to me this rubbish.
Make me a cheap car that’s dependable and I can charge at my house and then we’ll talk.

Palantir may have led Trump to victory. How else was the majority of Americans bated into electing a criminal over a prosecutor. Peter Theil, the founder of Palantir and the only boss JD Vance ever had was massively bankrolled into politics by Peter Theil. And Peter Theil was at the public introduction of Trump to JD Vance, just prior to JD being placed onto the Trump ticket. With AI being smarter than most humans. We may be entering a post advertising, post media, and even a post Capitalist time. It’s definitely a time of suspended Democracy (for there was no Democratic over site on the goals given to AI in how to manipulate the electorate).

With there already having been 3 attempts to assassinate Trump this election cycle, America has been very close to have a JD Vance Pesidential candidate. At this point, it may be time to get to know JD Vance better. The foreign press has written may times now that Trump would be elected; but, he would not be President.

DOGE is required becsuse USA has been getting worse not better - to prove this simply put up a chart of the US National Debt ok. The word used is unstustainable .. facts. Who heads DOGE .. so yesh Id say Tesla will have a clearer "road" ahead. Aka less red tape suffocating progress (case in point yet again is space x)...