Just days before the inauguration, the joke around Washington, DC’s corridors of power is that the Republican leader is now known as Musk’s ‘Vice President Trump’

President-elect Trump is poised to take office on Monday, and some are already wondering whether his policies surrounding electric vehicles will help or hurt automakers including Tesla. The Austin-based automaker has collected a whopping $11 billion from the sale of regulatory credits to other automakers attempting to comply with emissions targets.