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My guess is that elon doesn't care about tesla except as a share price.

But surely this impacts share price? If the government can't own EVs that makes the addressable market smaller.

These days many stocks seem to be detached from reality-based price pressures. Some stocks have more in common with crypto speculation than with funding a company.

Exactly. If you look at all the recent Tesla earnings calls, they have fallen flat or below expectations and the price had skyrocketed because of “guidance” and promises of future robots, or ai, or whatever. It is not grounded in reality at all.

If they rip out their chargers doesn't it mean they have to charge their EV's somewhere else? That somewhere else could well be a Tesla charger, which gives Elon a cut for every kWh they buy.

I'm sure he's pretty confident the federal government will be predominately buying EV's in a few years years regardless of what else happens.

These are almost certainly J1772/CCS chargers, not NACS.