Tesla sales down for 2nd quarter amid Musk backlash
Tesla said on Wednesday sales in the April-June period dropped 13.4 percent from the same quarter a year before to around 384,000 units.
That's a slight acceleration of the pace of decline in the first quarter of this year.
Musk led the Department of Government Efficiency under President Donald Trump until May. His campaigns to slash the federal workforce and spending sparked backlashes from car buyers in the US and abroad.
Analysts also attribute the sales drop to intensifying competition from rivals such as China's BYD.
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