CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' crew discuss Tesla as the electric carmaker's stock was hit with several downgrades since the Trump-Musk fallout.

Tesla stock traded higher early Wednesday as shares continue to recover from last week's sell-off with the feud between Elon Musk and President Trump cooling down.

Tesla’s stock was recently right around the price at which it closed the session before a spat between CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump culminated in a one-day drop of about $150 billion in Tesla’s market value.

Tesla Inc dropped 14% in a single day yesterday, representing one of its most significant one-day falls in the past few years.

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"It is a convergence among three of our major platforms. So robots, energy storage, AI," Wood said of Tesla.

Musk attempted to appeal to a F-150 and Ram crowd that hates his cars, while completely losing the Tesla crowd that loved his cars.’ Tesla is anything but a boring stock, Ill

Shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) are up this week, climbing 10.3% as of market close on Friday. The rise came as the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) both sank modestly.