Musk’s Mayhem Continues Beyond DOGE Into Our Everyday Lives

This is a story about Elon Musk's political and business activities, not about home energy upgrades or rebates. It has no direct bearing on energy-efficiency projects or incentives for homeowners.

The piece recounts fallout from DOGE, the cost-cutting effort Musk led inside the federal government, which fired thousands of workers last year before some agencies, including the General Services Administration, began rehiring hundreds of staff. It also covers several legal and political disputes involving Musk: a lawsuit over grants canceled using an AI chatbot's judgment on whether programs related to diversity initiatives, questions from lawmakers about his influence over enforcement of a corporate-ownership disclosure law, and a Wisconsin elections board finding probable cause that he violated a state bribery statute tied to a $1 million voter sweepstakes during a state Supreme Court race.

The article also notes a shift in Tesla's energy strategy: rather than generating its own solar power, the company has signed deals to buy about 600 megawatts of power from utility-scale solar projects, a change from the vision behind its 2016, $2.6 billion purchase of SolarCity, which had aimed to combine home solar, batteries, and electric vehicles into one product line. None of this changes any rebate, program, or incentive available to homeowners.