Sheryl Crow says she has sold her Tesla and donated the proceeds to NPR.
“My parents always said… you are who you hang out with.
There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by… pic.twitter.com/W9mZHWVovc— Yashar Ali (@yashar) February 15, 2025
https://www.aol.com/sheryl-crow-says-long-tesla-002122908.html
By Chris Willman
Sheryl Crow had once been a proud Tesla owner, even interfacing with Elon Musk on social media about her car. But whatever support the environmentally minded singer formerly had for the EVs has been superseded by her alarm at the rightward political turn taken by the man she now calls “President Musk,” and so she is saying: “So long Tesla.”
In a video posted to Instagram, Crow stands on the street as her Tesla is towed away. The caption says that she has sold the car and donated the money to NPR, “which is under threat by President Musk.”
Her statement begins: “My parents always said… you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”
Crow is part of a wave of liberally minded Tesla owners who have decided they can no longer drive cars so closely associated with the world’s richest man, now that he has been set up by President Donald Trump as seemingly his closest advisor. Earlier this week, Musk — who, as head of the unofficial government agency DOGE, is taking the lead on eliminating thousands of federal government jobs and cutting back agencies and services — stood literally as Trump’s right-hand man in a headline-making Oval Office news conference where he, not the president, did most of the talking.
Crow’s social media message continued: “Money donated to @npr, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes that the truth will continue to find its way to those willing to know the truth.”
The singer’s message closed out by adding hashtags for #PresidentMusk as well as #PresidentTrump and #ProtectTheConstitution, plus the suggestion to call 202-224-3141, the switchboard for the U.S. Capitol.
