Musk’s antics turn Tesla owners, new buyers against it
SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Musk’s antics turn Tesla owners, new buyers against it Musk’s behaviour has been putting off potential clients, perturbing some Tesla owners even before the recent spate of events. ADVERTISEMENT Dennis Levitt got his first Tesla, a blue Model S, in 2013, and loved it. “It was so much better than any car I’ve ever driven,” the 73-year-old self-storage company executive says. ADVERTISEMENT He bought into the brand as well as Elon Musk, Tesla Inc.’s charismatic chief executive officer, purchasing another Model S the following year and driving the first one across the country. In 2016, he stood in line at a showroom near his suburban Los Angeles home to be one of the first to order two Model 3s — one for himself, the other for his wife. ADVERTISEMENT “I was a total Musk fanboy,” Levitt says. Was, because while Levitt still