About half of the Americans have a negative look at Tesla and Elon Musk, CNBC poll

The general public and investors have something in common with our days: they have no great love for any Tesla Either CEO Elon Musk.

Shares of tesla The final sale has passed, and the economic study of CNBC All-Aerica finds that more than 47% of the public are negatively looking at the company. Another 27% are positive on the manufacturer of electric cars, and 24% are neutral. That compares to a third of the public that has a positive look at General Motors With 51% neutral and 10% negative.

Tesla appeared under pressure with concerned that his founder is controversial political activity In the category of government employment and support of the President Donald Trump And Republicans can feel future buyers. Protests have emerged across the country in Tesla offices.

The poll found that Musk is a very polarization figure. Half of the public has a negative view of Moscow, compared to 36%that see it positively, and 16%, which are neutral. Among the Democrats, the pure approval of Musk (positive minus negative) is -82 and -49 for independent. GOP respondents are +56.

The biggest problem for Tesla can be that many groups that are potential customers are much more positive Electric vehicles than they are about the company.

“Where Tesla is the strongest, one of the people who are least bought by EV,” said Micah Roberts, a partner on public opinion strategies, a republican poll.

Overall 35% of Americans are negative on EV and 33% are positive. Men, however, +11 in the pure EVS approval, but evenly divided into Tesla. Youth aged 18-34 is +19 on EVS, but -23 on Tesla. The gap is the most one among the Democrats who are on +20 on EV, but -74 on Tesla.

Further complication of this issue: Republicans are strongly positive on Tesla, but pure negative on EVS.

A 1000 poll was conducted from April 9 to April 13 and has a +/- 3.1%error.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a comment request.