“It’s losers across the board.” Reuters also reported Wednesday evening that Musk sent an email to the Tesla staff, asking them not to be “bothered by stock market craziness” and that Tesla will be the most valuable company on earth, long-term.Volkswagen, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and almost every legacy company in between are gunning for would-be Tesla buyers.And Musk’s Extremely Online antics seem poised to send customers into the arms of competitors whose chief executives aren’t as eager to air grievances about people’s pronouns on social media.“You’d have to go back to [Steve] Jobs at Apple, and Jack Welch at GE in the last 40 years to have any sort of similarities to where a CEO is so crucial to the story,” Ives said.Given all of this, it’s understandable why even Tesla fans may be turned off by the Twitter stuff and may start to look elsewhere for their next EV purchase."