With a potential asking price under $40,000, this skeletonized SUV could be the lifeline Tesla needs. Here’s what you’ll learn reading this story. For the first time, Tesla’s new affordable vehicle has been spotted in public.

"Musk is CEO -- the buck stops with him. As a CEO in a competitive environment, he's the one who has to have the vision and lead the troops," David Meier, a senior investment analyst at The Motley Fool, told ABC News. "But there's a lot going on in the world that impacts Tesla's business."

According to Alexandra Flores, a psychologist at Williams College and lead author of the study, the team initially expected that liberals’ views on EVs would remain stable over time, whereas conservatives would start to become more positive about EVs—or at least Teslas—given Musk’s politically rightward lurch in recent years.