The big week of Elon Musk, from the surrounding one of a wave of Netflix cancellation to the explosion of Tesla sales estimates

Well, maybe.

The manufacturer of electric vehicles led by Musk reported Thursday that car sales had jumped 7% in the three months to September after plunging for most of the year while people disabled by his embrace of President Donald Trump and far -right politicians in Europe are rehumed to buy his cars.

But the jump comes with a warning: Tesla benefited from consumers benefiting from a tax credit of $ 7,500 before expiring on September 30, an increase in purchases that helped all manufacturers of electric vehicles.

In fact, many Tesla competitors have seen sales increase more. Rivian Automotive reported an increase of 32%.

Tesla’s shares have increased sharply on sales news, but closed the day from $ 4.5% to $ 439 in the middle of skepticism, the new number really points out a turnaround given all anti-MUSC reactions.

“I don’t think most people are more in love with Elon now than they were a few months ago,” said Sam Abuelsamid de Telemetry Insight. “I expect it to be more a blow for Tesla than the restart of growth.”

Even Tesla Bull Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities was prudent, noting that there are “demand problems”.

However, it was an eruption number with sales reaching 497,099 vehicles against 462,890 during the same period last year. Analysts expected a small drop to 456,000.

Investors applauded Musk’s decision in April to leave Washington for Austin, Texas, where Tesla has its headquarters. But it is always strongly involved in political and social wars, alienating potential car buyers.

On Wednesday, he posted on X that he had canceled his Netflix subscription because of the critical comments made by the creator of a show on the streaming service, which seemed to trigger a wave of cancellations in turn.

The net drop in Tesla’s shares has been remarkable because investors have been surprisingly optimistic about the company in recent weeks despite terrible financial figures.

Investors have increased the action 34% in September only in a bet that the new planned version of Musk of its successful Musk model will recharge sales. Musk has also managed to divert the attention of cars to other aspects of the company – the deployment of its driver -free Robotaxi service provided for several cities and its optimus robots for factory works and household chores.

The highest of the stock was also the apparent development of Musk on the company.

To hold its attention, Tesla’s board of directors proposed last month a salary package that would allow Musk to win 1 dollar billion if it achieves certain financial objectives in the coming years. The remuneration offer, unprecedented for American companies known for its disproportionate remuneration of the CEO, aroused criticism from Pope Leo in an interview deploring the enlargement of gaps on income.

If Musk fills the goals, he could establish a record in addition to his own record. He recently became the first person to reach $ 500 billion in net value, at least according to the Rich List Forbes compiler.

The increase in sales of 7% in the last quarter compared to 13% fell in the first three months of the year, when Musk led the cost of reducing Trump government to the government’s Ministry of Efficiency. During the next three months and June, sales dived 13%again.

The anti-MUSC backlash in Europe had also been fierce. Sales plunged 40% in more than two dozen countries after publicly supported far -right politicians.

Musk said that a British Prime Minister was a “evil tyrant” who belongs to the prison and told the Germans that “things will become very, much worse” in their country if they did not vote for the anti-immigrant alternative for the German party. Demonstrations broke out in several cities, including the hanging of the billionaire in effigy in Milan and posters in London comparing it to a Nazi.

For his part, the Tesla chief of the Board of Directors who approved the last Musk’s remuneration package recently told Bloomberg that she was not sure if Musk’s policy had had an impact on the finance of the company. Robyn Denholm has won nearly $ 700 million in compensation for having sat on the board of directors since 2014, a set that has itself aroused criticism.

Tesla publishes results of the third quarter later this month. The benefits of the previous quarter fell 16% while the company continued to lose market share against European manufacturers of electric vehicles and rapidly growing Chinese rivals, such as Byd.

Musk’s new Robotaxi service, which started with a test in Austin in June, had a few harnesses with reports on taxis that suddenly stop without reason and even leading in the opposing path in one case. But Musk says that the service will take place quickly anyway with launches in several other cities by the end of next year.

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