"When asked at the time what she thought about the episode, GM CEO Mary Barra said she hadn't given a lot of thought to the snub, even as her company was heaped with praise for leading the EV revolution. Speaking Wednesday at the New York Times Dealbook Summit, she told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin that she had a private conversation with then-President Joe Biden to set the record straight."
""Let's not forget the White House giving Tesla the cold shoulder, excluding us from the EV summit and crediting GM with 'leading the electric car revolution' in the same quarter that they delivered 26 electric cars (not a typo) and Tesla delivered 300 thousand," he wrote in a December 2021 post on X. Even Biden's Vice President and later Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris later said it was a "mistake" not to extend an invitation to the billionaire businessman."
"He was crediting me and I said, 'Actually, I think a lot of that credit goes to Elon and Tesla,' Barra said. 'You know me, Andrew. I don't want to take credit for things.'"
Tesla was excluded from the May 2021 White House electric-vehicle summit, and the omission became a consequential political snub. Mary Barra privately told President Joe Biden that much of the credit for electric-vehicle progress belonged to Elon Musk and Tesla. The omission deepened a rift between Biden and Musk; Musk publicly criticized the White House for excluding Tesla and contrasted GM's minimal EV deliveries with Tesla's roughly 300,000 that quarter. Musk later campaigned for Donald Trump and advised the White House earlier this year. Vice President Kamala Harris later called the exclusion a "mistake."
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