Tesla sales have plummeted to their lowest level in three years after a backlash against its boss Elon Musk. The electric car maker delivered almost 337,000 electric vehicles in the first three months of 2025, a 13% drop from a year ago. Tesla shares tumbled in early trading on Wednesday after the release of the low sales numbers.

A Tesla bull expects the company's Q1 deliveries to be down 7% from a year earlier. He said Musk's DOGE antics and brand problems are partly to blame.

Tesla sales fell in the first three months of the year in another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.

Tesla's sales plunged 13 percent in the first quarter of 2025, the company's weakest performance in nearly three years, as the backlash to Elon Musk 's role in the Trump administration grows.

Susan Crawford, a liberal, won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, easily defeating her Musk-backed conservative challenger, Brad Schimel, in a race Musk said “might decide the future of America and Western civilization.”

Tesla sales fell in the first three months of the year in another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.

It’s pretty easy to draw a straight line from the $250 million Musk reportedly spent to get President Trump elected last year and his work with DOGE, to the growing peaceful protests that have sprung up at Tesla dealerships both in the U.S. and abroad.

Elon Musk has long been credited with turning Tesla into a beacon of innovation, the visionary who pushed the world into an era of electrification. But

Tesla's EV deliveries fell 13% to 336,700 vehicles over Q1 of last year, far fewer than arch-rival BYD, as CEO Elon Musk's crisis deepens.