Tae Helton, a car aficionado who lives minutes from Tesla Inc.’s flagship California factory, bought one Tesla for the family fleet and nearly purchased a second one last year.After Elon Musk made gestures resembling a Nazi salute at an inauguration event for President Donald Trump last month,

The EV maker’s sales fell 45% across Europe in January, following its first annual decline in global deliveries in over a decade.

Tom Blackburn became one of the first 100,000 people to buy a Tesla Model S. The purchase was part of a broader effort to adopt a more environmentally conscious lifestyle, which also included installing solar panels on his Virginia home.

Current prices put the auto maker’s market value below $1 trillion. The stock needed to maintain a share price of about $311 to keep that mark.