As Tesla continues to shed consumers over its founder Elon Musk’s political stint with the Trump administration, other automakers like General Motors are taking advantage of the growing gap in the electric vehicle market.

Elon Musk donated more than US$250 million to elect Donald Trump. In return he received a bill that could cost Tesla Inc. billions. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” puts at risk a crucial source of profit for Tesla by neutering rules that allow the electric-vehicle maker to sell billions of dollars of emissions credits.

The feud reignited on Monday when Musk, who spent hundreds of millions on Trump's re-election, renewed his criticism of Trump's tax-cut and spending bill, which would eliminate subsidies for electric vehicle purchases that have benefited Tesla, the leading U.S. EV maker. That bill passed the Senate by a narrow margin midday Tuesday.