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Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year

FILE -- The Model 3 assembly line, under a tent, at Tesla's factory in Fremont, Calif., June 28, 2018. The year has only gotten more intense for Elon Musk, the chairman and chief executive of Tesla, since he abruptly declared on Twitter in mid-August that he hoped to convert the publicly traded company into a private one. The episode kicked off a furor in the markets and within Tesla itself, and he acknowledged on Aug. 16 that he was fraying. (Justin Kaneps/The New York Times)