Elon Musk who is the founder of Tesla and is a new owner of the micro blogging website Twitter has been in the news in the recent past for different reasons. Recently, Musk made a comment on the tweet of the President of United States, Joe Biden and asked him to buy an electric car from his company Tesla. United State’s President had recently reveled the plans of building 5 lakh electric vehicle charging stations all across the United States and announced a release of the funding for a nationwide charging network for the Electric Networks. This is going to help in financing the construction of charging stations across 35 different states and will significantly improve the charging infrastructure of the country.
Following the post on social media site, Twitter, Musk and Biden then had a conversation on Twitter. The tongue in cheek comments were followed by people all over the world and created quite the buzz all over.
Earlier in the Year, Biden did not Tesla when he was making his speech for the state of Union. Musk commented on that and said that no one was watching the President when he was making that address.
Read the Tweet here : Elon Musk on Twitter: “@POTUS Or you can just buy a Tesla” / Twitter
Biden said that an investment of a total of $18 billion was made by GM and Ford for building electric vehicles while Tesla had not been mentioned in the address that Biden made to the nation. Musk was quick to address that Tesla had been contributing to as many as 50,000 jobs in United States for building electric vehicles and is investing over double of what the other two companies that Biden mentioned are investing.
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He even went on to say that Biden is treating the public of America like Fools. Biden had in February though, had acknowledged the contribution of Tesla for countering the Chinese EV infrastructure.