San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that US President Joe Biden's administration was "not the friendliest" and its electric vehicle policy appeared to be "controlled by labour unions". Speaking at Code Conference in California, Musk criticised a recent White House summit on electric vehicles wherein major automakers were invited except Tesla.

Musk's comments came during a Code Conference interview and followed a tweet in which the Tesla CEO mocked Biden using similar insults as former US President Donald Trump, reports The Verge. The Biden administration invited auto executives to the White House last month to discuss the shared goal of increasing the production of electric vehicles.Top officials from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis were invited. But Tesla, which is the largest EV maker in the world, was not. Musk said.

One potential reason that Tesla wasn't invited is that its factory workforce is not unionised, while Biden is a big supporter of unions. During the Code interview, Musk went a step further, claiming that Biden's administration was "controlled by the unions".

Musk has been tweaking Biden on Twitter for weeks. Last week, when asked why Biden didn't issue a statement about SpaceX's recent rocket launch, Musk tweeted, "He's still sleeping," echoing a Trump nickname for Biden, "Sleepy Joe".

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