WALL STREET KID
5 hours ago
In 2024, Tesla, Ford, Honda, and Stellantis (Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram) led in the number of vehicles recalled.
Here's a breakdown of the top automakers with the most recalls in 2024:
Tesla: 5.1 million vehicles recalled, primarily for issues fixable via over-the-air (OTA) software updates.
Stellantis (Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram): 4.8 million vehicles recalled, with recalls spanning various models and issues like airbags, electronic stability control, and rearview camera displays.
Ford: 4.36 million vehicles recalled, with recalls including issues with Explorers, Escape, and other models.
Honda: 3.79 million vehicles recalled, with recalls including issues with Civic, CR-V, and Acura Integra models.
General Motors: 1.84 million vehicles recalled, with recalls including issues with 2024 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra models.
BMW: 1.83 million vehicles recalled.
Toyota: 1.22 million vehicles recalled.
Kia: 1.21 million vehicles recalled.
Hyundai: 1.11 million vehicles recalled.
Volkswagen: 1.09 million vehicles recalled.
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Speaking of Germany…. If you look up ‘BMW recall’ (just using BMW as an example) using Google search and under an AI overview, you’ll see the real tragedy that many German and American BMW owners are experiencing!! I would think that would make them sadder than a salute by Elon.
WALL STREET KID
12 hours ago
There are two huge national security questions at the heart of the Trump regime.
The first is whether Elon Musk is working, at least in part, for China’s Xi Jinping. Consider:
(1) China is the location of Musk’s largest Tesla factory in the world, in which China invested $2.8 billion. The state-of-the-art facility was built in Shanghai with special permission from the Chinese government and now accounts for more than half of Tesla’s global deliveries.
(2) China is the world’s biggest market for Teslas and is the only electronic vehicle market where Tesla sales are continuing to grow.
(3) Chinese investors have been funneling money into Musk’s other businesses.
(4) China is a hotbed of other technologies that Musk would like to get his hands on.
(5) In 2022, Musk told the Financial Times that China should be given some control over Taiwan by making a “special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable.”
(6) In 2023, at a tech conference, he called Taiwan “an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China” and compared the Taiwan-China situation to Hawaii and the United States.
(7) On X, the social platform he owns, Musk has long used his account to praise China, encouraging more people to visit the country.
(8) One of the Pentagon’s biggest worries is that China has developed a suite of weapons capable of attacking U.S. military and non-military satellites.
(9) The Pentagon now relies heavily on Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellite communications network for military personnel to transmit data worldwide.
(10) SpaceX launches most of the Pentagon’s military satellites on its Falcon 9 rockets, which take off from launchpads SpaceX has set up at military bases in Florida and California.
(11) SpaceX has become so valuable to the Pentagon that the Chinese government has said it considers SpaceX to be an extension of the U.S. military.
(12) The Pentagon has hired Musk’s SpaceX to build it a new constellation of low-earth orbit satellites to spy on China, Russia, and other threats.
(13) Perceived missile threats from China — nuclear weapons or hypersonic missiles or cruise missiles — have led Trump to sign an executive order instructing the Pentagon to start work on “Golden Dome,” a space-based missile defense system, in which Musk’s SpaceX would almost surely be involved for rocket launches, satellite structures, and space-based data communications systems.
(14) Musk and his SpaceX have repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting U.S. secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders — leading to at least three federal reviews, including one by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General and another by the Air Force and the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
So … is Musk working for Trump, for the United States, for China, or for himself — or for all of the above?
The question of Musk’s allegiance becomes more weighty by the day.
Friday morning, for example, Musk met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Pentagon brass. According to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the meeting had been arranged at Musk’s request to give Musk details about America’s preparations for war with China — the most sensitive and secret information anyone can receive.
It appears that after the scheduled meeting and its subject matter were reported yesterday, the meeting mysteriously morphed into something more innocent. Apparently, Trump decided Musk shouldn’t be briefed on war preparations with China.
Musk arrived shortly before 9 a.m. and left about 90 minutes later. When a reporter asked what Hegseth and Musk discussed, Musk shot back: “Why should I tell you?” Trump and Hegseth deny China was even mentioned.
The underlying question is whether Musk can be trusted.
Not even his position in the Trump regime is clear. Congress has not confirmed him for any role. He hasn’t been “vetted” by the FBI, as are all senior appointments. His finances haven’t been reviewed by anyone; they certainly haven’t been made public. He hasn’t even taken the oath of office, pledging his allegiance to the United States and the Constitution.
I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention Musk’s connection to Putin. According to The Wall Street Journal, Musk has been in regular contact with the Russian president —a close partner of China, which has supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Which raises the second huge national security concern at the heart of the Trump regime: Is Trump working for Putin? I don’t have to list all the evidence that prompts the question. That evidence also keeps mounting by the day.
Trump and Musk: Manchurian heads of the United States?
Prudent Capitalist
12 hours ago
I note you left out the part on Elon Musk bashing our longtime European allies and friends and making demeaning comments about them, while at the same time endorsing the far-right party in Germany that is the successor to the Nazi party, his comments supportive of Russia and Vladimir Putin, his claim that Hitler did not murder millions of people, but rather that "public sector employees" did, the fact that he called a respected former navy fighter pilot, astronaut and US Senator who spoke out in defense of freedom and visited Ukraine a "traitor," and the fact that Elon Musk recently claimed that Social Security is a "Ponzi Scheme," to mention just a few reasons why Elon Musk has lost the respect of so many people.
Genz2
12 hours ago
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370073925112
You have to RESPECT a guy like Shaq who owns two Cybertrucks!! Just like you should respect a guy who helped bring two astronauts home from space, is fighting corruption in our government, is saving our environment, leads a company in making the best cars, is putting it on the line for India, truly cares about LGBTQ as he said you can buy another car if you don’t like him supporting them and the list of positive things Elon does goes on and on!!! Let’s show ELON SOME RESPECT!!!!
Jimmy Joe
13 hours ago
Milton Freidman contradicts himself. There is no free enterprise in this world market.
The corruption has been exposed. Innovation, job creation, and supporting new Companies is not what is happening. the idea is to tear everything down and monopolize the market by attacking through market fraud.
Companies that flat out STEAL and UTILIZE patented (some seminal patents) technologies because there is no way around those patents and have stolen them for close to 2 decades. Example Samsung, Micron, and Google stealing patents (some seminal) from NetList.
Other companies are naked shorted into oblivion for tax free cash and their proprietary intellectual properties are sold for pennies to those that attacked them.
Example Fingermatrix. Fingerprint platen technology used in identity now very common.
Your opinion is not worthy of a response, but I did anyway.
Continue watching the clown show. Elon should DOGE himself.
Jimmy Joe
14 hours ago
As part of the Mag 7, all of which cook their books, $TSLA is no different than any trend stock.
Tesla would still be in favor, but for its CEO Elon Musk who doesn't even understand the implications of his actions.
But so happy he came out of the Nazi closet.
How Dolly Dumb is that~? You can't understand why people are so upset~? Therefore, you are so Dolly Dumb you don't even understand WWII
history. Italy, Germany, and Japan.......
Trade Tesla cars in for Polestar EVs.
What Canada did all Countries should do.
Musk is Trump's meal ticket. No watchdogs in the Federal Government so project 2025 can proceed without any guardrails.
Musk is not a birth right citizen of the United States thank God~!
Hope he ends up on skid row smoking crack cocaine. What this admin has done to veterans is shameful.
What Musk is doing to our government through the pretense of DOGE (aka Dog) is self serving.
Deport Elon Musk~!
hedge_fun
14 hours ago
I not only own shares, I have a……..
an order lower.
No, I don’t own a Tesla, and I probably wouldn’t buy one.
The reason I invested in Tesla wasn’t just for the EV’s. The Robo taxis are coming as are the robots.
I missed the run up in November and kept waiting for a pull back. Then I made my entry in the mid $230’’s. It was the perfect storm.
But since you wanna suggest an about face, look who’s attacking EV’s.
Those that were against EV‘s, didn’t go around burning them.
Next?