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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk Wednesday called statewide shelter-in-place orders that have shuttered his Fremont, Calif., factory and prevented a first quarter delivery record “fascist,” dropping multiple expletives and railing against what he called an infringement on individual freedoms.

Musk, on the company’s first quarter earnings call wtih journalists, unloaded on his state’s current order for people to remain in homes to halt the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 61,000 people nationwide.

“Frankly, I would call it forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights, in my opinion,” he said. “Breaking peoples’ freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country. What the f—?”

Musk argued people shouldn’t be told to remain in their homes.

“This is fascist,” he said. “This isn’t democratic. This isn’t freedom. Give people back their g——- freedom.” read more

Brazil is South America’s largest auto producer and a major base of operations for General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Volkswagen Group and Ford Motor Co., which are requesting a bailout for their local units.

The electric vehicle maker posted net income of $16 million for the first three months of 2020, with the help of $354 million in emissions credits sold to competitors.