Tesla Executives Grilled Elon Musk When His Story Wasn't Adding Up

After getting caught tweeting out a lie, Elon Musk was interrogated by Tesla executives worried about government blowback. Last year, after Reuters reported that Tesla was killing its $25,000 model to focus on the Robotaxi, Musk tweeted that the British news wire was "lying" — but according to new reporting from the same outlet, he was the one telling fibs. As Reuters reports, Tesla higher-ups were perplexed that Musk had denied the cancellation of the cheaper model, because he had told people within the company that he was, in fact, kiboshing the project. Trying to get to the bottom of the morass, those same execs questioned the CEO and asked whether he'd reversed course without consulting them. In response, according to Reuters' unnamed insider sources, Musk said that the cancellation was still in place — something he seemed to admit months later when he joked in an earnings call that a $25,000 Tesla would be "pointless." That fib could have gotten the company in trouble yet agai ... Read full article.