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Tesla (TSLA -0.33%) shares have declined 15% year to date amid a flurry of bad news. The company lost 7 percentage points of market share in the first quarter, ceding the top position in electric car sales to Chinese automaker BYD, as demand deteriorated across China, Europe, and the United States.

Don't look now, but when it rains, it pours. That's surely how Tesla (TSLA -0.33%) investors feel recently as problems continue to mount for the young automaker.

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Brand damage from CEO Elon Musk's political involvement and the potential loss of U.S. EV tax incentives threaten Tesla, Inc.'s near-term demand and margins. While autonomy projects and tariff relief offer some upside, these positives are unlikely to fully offset current sales and competitive pressures. Given limited growth prospects and aggressive valuation, I see more downside risk than upside for TSLA shares.

What became of Tesla's (NASDAQ:TSLA) original mission - to catalyze the world's transition to sustainable energy and reinvent transportation from the ground up? What once sounded like a pipe dream became a bold, stepwise strategy: start with a sports car, use that money to build affordable EVs, and power it all with clean energy.

In Q2 and Q3, most of Tesla's revenue growth is coming from things it's already executing. The global Model Y refresh just wrapped in Q1, and it looks like demand - especially in Asia - is picking up again. Tesla is aiming to pilot a robotaxi program in Austin this June, using unsupervised Model Ys. If that goes well, they want to expand to more cities by the end of the year and scale up in 2026. Also coming into view is the Optimus robot project. Starting in 2027 and beyond, Tesla's bigger ideas start to come into play.

Now is the moment for Musk to channel his fury into executing on the company's long-promised pivot to driverless cars.

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General Motors is betting that America's reticence to adopt electric vehicles is temporary. New batteries are helping it drive down the cost of its cars.