By Chris Isidore, CNN

(CNN) — It wasn’t long ago that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was advocating for ending the $7,500 tax credit for buyers of electric vehicles.

“Take away the subsidies. It will only help Tesla,” he said in a post on his social media platform X last year, adding “Also remove the subsidies from all industries!”

But now, with House budget and tax bill known as the “big, beautiful bill” proposing to end that tax credit, he and Tesla are suddenly arguing for the continuation of those same credits as the Senate debates its own version of the bill.

“Abruptly ending the energy tax credits would threaten America’s energy independence and the reliability of our grid” said Tesla’s solar power unit in its own post on X late last month.

“There is no change to tax incentives for

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