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According to foreign media, CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that Tesla has redundant respirators, all of which are FDA certified and can be provided to hospitals in need free of charge, but the only requirement is that these respirators should be used by patients immediately rather than stored in warehouses. Tesla has yet to disclose the exact number of ventilators available and the hospitals involved. Although Musk's "this operation" has won some favor, it does not cover up his previous contempt for the new coronavirus. In March, musk sent an email to all employees of the company, which showed that musk believed that "at present, the panic of the new crown virus epidemic in the United States is more terrible than the virus itself". If he didn't feel sick, he hoped that the employees could still insist on coming to work. He even said: "it's stupid to panic about the new coronavirus, and car accidents have a higher mortality rate than the virus. As soon as the speech was made, it was immediately ridiculed by industry partners, health experts and all sectors of society. Currently, musk, under pressure from the local government, has suspended the production of electric vehicles at its plants in Fremont and New York, and plans to cut about 75% of its employees in Nevada. At present, due to the shutdown of factories and the suspension of dealers in some regions, the sales volume of new cars in the U.S. fell sharply in March, and the "social distance guideline" proposed by the U.S. government will be extended to April 30, which may make the decline of car sales in April more serious. Industry analysts at truecar, an auto e-commerce platform, predict that new car sales on the site will fall 37% in March and may fall to 50% - 60% in April. Tesla's sales will also be affected. According to the plan, Tesla should complete the delivery of 93000 vehicles in this quarter, but in fact, it only delivered about 77000 vehicles, down about 30% from the fourth quarter of last year. The new coronavirus is still spreading rapidly. Up to now, more than 850000 people have been infected and 41000 people have died. Governments around the world are calling on automakers, aerospace companies and industrial producers to help produce and buy ventilators and other medical devices. The United States has forced Tesla, general electric, automobile and even Boeing to "switch lines" to produce respirators. Among them, Ford has said it will produce 50000 ventilators in the next 100 days, and is expected to give priority to 1500 by the end of April.