The department said via email that it has not awarded Tesla — or any manufacturer — a contract to produce armored electric vehicles.
The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.
In a statement to PolitiFact, the State Department confirmed Tesla isn’t in store for that money. The department said the Biden administration had pursued the possible purchase. Biden had signed an executive order in 2021 encouraging government agencies to buy electric vehicles when possible.
The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles, but the plans have been put on hold by the Trump administration
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for a response from the U.S. State Department after reports surfaced about $400 million worth of contracts for armored vehicles produced by Tesla.
Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder, is a board member at Tesla who lives in Austin, where Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, keeps a large compound. He is planning to start shortly in the federal government as part of Mr. Musk’s team, which has been called the Department of Government Efficiency, according to the person with knowledge of the matter.
President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused Joe Biden of leaving Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded on the ISS for political reasons. Although delayed due to ...
The controversy started in a very Washington way: as a line item in a government spreadsheet buried on the State Department's website. It appeared as if the State Department was taking steps to ...
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