Biden Won't Acknowledge Tesla, And Now The White House Wants Elon Musk's Help With The Chip Shortage
Biden Won't Acknowledge Tesla, And Now The White House Wants Elon Musk's Help With The Chip Shortage
As Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) fans continue to urge President Joe Biden to acknowledge the role Tesla has played in America's electrification efforts, a White House official has called upon Tesla for help with the chip shortage.
AS特斯拉公司(納斯達克：特斯拉)粉絲繼續敦促總統喬·拜登為了承認特斯拉在美國電氣化努力中發揮的作用，一名白宮官員呼籲特斯拉幫助解決芯片短缺問題。
What Happened: Biden posted a video on Twitter with General Motors Co (NYSE:GM) CEO Mary Barra, crediting GM and Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) for their leading roles in America's transition to electric vehicles, but Tesla, the largest EV producer in the U.S., was left out of the conversation.
發生的事情：拜登在推特上發佈了一段視頻，通用汽車(紐約證券交易所股票代碼：GM)首席執行官瑪麗·巴拉，歸功於通用汽車和福特汽車公司紐約證券交易所股票代碼：F)對特斯拉在美國向電動汽車轉型過程中扮演的領導角色表示讚賞，但美國最大的電動汽車生產商特斯拉被排除在對話之外。
Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to the post with a tweet of his own in the form of a word puzzle: "Starts with a T, Ends with an A, ESL in the middle," Musk said in an apparent effort to get Biden to acknowledge Tesla.
特斯拉首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克馬斯克在推特上以字謎的形式迴應了這條推文：“以T開頭，以A結尾，中間是ESL，這顯然是為了讓拜登承認特斯拉。”
Musk's tweet saw significant engagement from Tesla fans as supporters followed up with responses to Biden, highlighting his oversight. Others saw it as more of an intentional slight and are taking more extensive measures to urge Biden to mention Tesla.
馬斯克的推文吸引了特斯拉粉絲的大量參與，支持者紛紛迴應拜登，突顯了他的監督。其他人認為這更多的是故意的輕視，並正在採取更廣泛的措施，敦促拜登提到特斯拉。
More than 55,000 people have signed a petition asking the president to acknowledge Tesla and someone even bought a billboard in Times Square featuring a tweet from Musk.
超過5.5萬人在請願書上簽名，要求總統承認特斯拉，甚至有人在時代廣場購買了一塊廣告牌，上面印有馬斯克的推文。
Related Link: Tesla Fans Buy Times Square Billboard Promoting Tweet From Elon Musk: Will President Biden Notice?
相關鏈接：特斯拉車迷購買時代廣場廣告牌推廣埃隆·馬斯克的推文：拜登總統會注意到嗎？
Why It Matters: Biden still hasn't recognized Tesla for its leadership in the EV space, yet Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is seeking help from the company in relation to supply constraints affecting the semiconductor industry.
重要的原因：拜登仍未承認特斯拉在電動汽車領域的領導地位，但商務部長吉娜·雷蒙多正在就影響半導體行業的供應限制向該公司尋求幫助。
"America still leads the world in design and software, and the tooling, the equipment to make the chips," Raimondo said Thursday on CNBC's "Squawk Box." She wants semiconductor manufacturing to expand in the U.S. so the country can be less dependent on overseas manufacturers.
週四，雷蒙多在CNBC的“Squawk Box”節目中説：“美國在設計、軟件、工具和製造芯片的設備方面仍處於世界領先地位。”她希望半導體制造業在美國擴張，這樣美國就可以減少對海外製造商的依賴。
When asked specifically about whether Musk should be by his phone expecting a call, Raimondo said "yeah, absolutely."
當被特別問及馬斯克是否應該在他的手機旁等待電話時，雷蒙多説：“是的，當然。”
"Look, none of this is personal," she said. "These issues are way too important for anyone to have, you know, feelings hurt. Like, let's just do the work. And as I said, anyone who has good ideas or is willing to help us, absolutely we want the help."
“聽着，這些都不是針對個人的，”她説。“這些問題對任何人來説都太重要了，你知道，感情不會受到傷害。就像我説的，讓我們幹活吧。正如我所説，任何有好主意或願意幫助我們的人，我們都絕對需要幫助。”
Raimondo noted that Tesla was able to navigate the chip shortage better than its competitors because of the nature of its business as a tech company, opposed to an automaker.
雷蒙多指出，特斯拉能夠比競爭對手更好地解決芯片短缺問題，是因為它的業務性質是一家科技公司，而不是汽車製造商。
It remains to be seen if Biden will be the one reaching out to Tesla, and furthermore, if he will acknowledge the company as the EV leader it has been and continues to be.
拜登是否會與特斯拉接觸還有待觀察，此外，他是否會承認特斯拉是電動汽車的領先者，它過去一直是，現在也將繼續是。
Photo: Diego Cambiaso from Pixabay.
圖片來源：來自皮克斯巴伊的迭戈·坎比亞索(Diego Cambiaso)。