Safety campaigners have condemned it and owners have complained about it. Goodbye to a steel monstrosity seemingly designed by a five-year-old Elon Musk is having a rough go of it, isn’t he? The world’s richest man spent almost half a billion dollars on the midterms in a failed attempt to defend Republican control of government. Now the tech mogul, who moved from California to Texas to escape Democrats and regulations, finds himself in a newly blue state. He also finds himself the subject of an unflattering documentary and, if the Democrats follow through on threats to investigate him, could potentially be in a spot of legal bother. And to top it all off? Musk’s beloved Cybertruck, the steel monstrosity that looks as if it were designed by a five-year-old, is winding down production . According to Musk, this isn’t because it’s an abject failure, but because he is channelling his energy i
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