Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York said that she would switch from her Tesla to another electric vehicle after a recent back and forth between the firebrand progressive and Tesla founder Elon Musk.
Ocasio-Cortez bought her Model 3 Tesla during the pandemic in 2020 to help her travel between Washington, D.C., and her Bronx-Queens District, New York, constituency.
“At the time, it was the only EV that could get me from New York to Washington on like one or one-and-a-half charges,” Ocasio-Cortez said, according to Bloomberg News.
But the outspoken member of the Squad now wants to buy an electric vehicle manufactured by workers who are part of unions.
“I would love to switch,” Ocasio-Cortez said, according to the outlet
Currently, Chevrolet Bolt, the Bolt EUV and the Ford F-150 lightning pickup are the only union-made electric automobiles available for sale in the United States, Bloomberg reported.
When asked about Elon Musk’s recent comments wherein he expressed support for Republicans and criticized unions, Ocasio-Cortez, according to Bloomberg, replied, “He’s a billionaire. I could care less what he thinks.”
Musk in an interview for episode 69 of the “All-In” podcast revealed that he would vote for a Republican in the upcoming midterm elections instead of the Democrats for whom he had hitherto voted “overwhelmingly.”
The celebrity tech businessman has recently grabbed headlines for his impending purchase of Twitter.
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