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I think he should sue the EU customers! It's unfair their political beliefs are hurting his business.
Good idea. Then, this entitled, out-of-touch crybaby can sue the kid that took his juice in Kindergarten!
I hate that becoming a certain level of rich can guarantee that you will never not be rich even if you’re the dumbest motherfucker that ever tried to do business.
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I'm target demo for a Tesla. Upper middle class techie. My next car will be an EV and I actually like Teslas. I like a lot of things about them but I will absolutely not buy one while Elon is in charge of the company. Fuck that guy. He's not getting any of my money.
Ditto. I have 3 requirements above the current cars though:
- Better range
- more physical controls, everything that isn't media or GPs needs physical buttons
- Elon must not profit
Add "real steering wheel" to that cause that futuristic airliner yoke shit would absolutely kill me the first time I try to cross over to turn.
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The physical control is a big one. I'm not using software capable of driving a vehicle that's made and controlled by a Nazi.
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Same here, even with all the BS around Twitter and his political views... I WAS still considering a Tesla, but with the pro-Trump PAC and the deep fakes on Xitter it's just another level of bullshit.
Hoping he gets forced out in the next year because I also don't want to buy from a dealership, which doesn't leave me a lot of options for an EV.
The tesla shareholders just approved a 55 billion dollar bonus that a court had previously struck down.
Hes not getting voted out. This is what they want.
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Watch him try to sue potential buyers.
Germany's satire newspaper Der Postillon already has an article about that. Amazing article, really.
https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/08/cybertruck-klage.html
"The fact that billions of people still haven't bought a Cybertruck and that Tesla's stock market value is rapidly declining is a conspiracy of left-wing woke elites and a major threat to freedom of speech," Musk continued, while handing hush money to a newly pregnant employee. "To everyone who doesn't have a Cybertruck yet: Fuck You!"
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I'd love an EV that is fast and affordable like a tesla. I wanted a tesla but couldn't afford it. Now I can afford it but there is no way in hell I'm buying one. Fuck him, he should fuck off to Mars or the sun, either is a big W for the world.
I only like the part where you can just order from the website instead of going to a dealership where after one hour of talking and giving you a plethora of personal data that is guaranteed to inundate you with spam they tell you that due to high demand the car sells for 3k over MSRP
For the rest, while I really like the clean design, for me a car must have
- A stalk for the indicator lights
- Gear selector on physical buttons
- Climate on physical buttons
- If it comes with automatic windshield, a $1 wet sensor that works in any visibility instead of trying to do it in software with computer vision
- If it comes with parking sensors, an array of $2 ultrasonic sensors that always work instead of trying to do it in software with computer vision
- Android auto/carplay. I want to be able to choose which app is used with navigation or use different ways to send messages besides sms. If the car operating system doesn't allow me to send messages using signal or to use offline openstreetmaps, then for me it's limited
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Yep.. People use Tesla as an example of EVs failing
It's not falling because of EVs, it's falling because the guy running it is so dodgy that consumers can't be sure they're not going to fuck things up in the future.
It also doesn't help that Elon lies about things he doesn't need to (even stupid things like calling the cave diver a pedo) and that makes potential consumers wonder what else he's lying about.
I'd rather buy from a company ran buy someone who's main job is running the company rather than being a social media MAGA influencer
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Also in America. Here in California I know several people that sold their Tesla because of lonE skuM and many more who wouldn’t buy because of him. I myself have told Tesla recruiters in two occasions that I’d never work for that piece of shit
Recruiters??!?!!?!
Why in the world would he possibly need to recruit people:
- To come live in abject fear of his every whim?
- To be expected to work 24 hours a day seven days a week?
- To not be able to have a family?
All the best talent will be lining up for some of that!!!!
At this point having Tesla on your résumé means you couldn’t do better.
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I was in the market for an EV shortly after he took over twitter. I ruled Tesla out because I do not want to be seen to support that douche in any way.
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I'm one. When he moved Tesla engineers to work on Twitter and then went on an unhinged anti-Trans rant in the middle of an earnings call, I shopped around and traded in my model 3. I always assumed the major selling point of a Tesla was the software, but he keeps fucking with the people who make it.
I think a lot of it was the charging network. What happened with that again? Oh yeah. He fired that whole team.
Enough about this douche canoe, can he disappear from social sphere? I don't want to hear about this guy rant every day for the next 50 years !
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Tesla would be right to dump this clown, but he ain't leaving without killing Tesla first.
72% of stakeholder vote favored giving him a stupid huge bonus, even stupid by rich billionaire standards. This was after TSLA took a hit and their sales were down and their unit prices were way down.
Tesla's all in on Musk. Probably easier to accept as someone who never did like their particular cars and if anything is a bit annoyed that the traditional car companies felt compelled to copy the stupid parts of Tesla when making their EVs. I can see if someone liked Tesla how they could hope to evict Musk... Just not going to happen.
The problem is that Tesla is a meme stock. It's stupidly overpriced for a car company with such little production.
They could get rid of musk and try to turn it into a normal company with solid fundamentals but this would remove its meme status and crash the share price anyway.
There's no way to fix Tesla without burning it's stock price to the ground, so anyone involved is just going to try to ride the crazy train as long as possible.
Come on Elon, make the Cybertruck 2 and really fuck everything up.
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They're all his friends and family who Musk made very rich. They're not gonna dump him.
It’s hurting it in the USA too. All the lefties I know who own Teslas are pretty much ashamed of them now. None of the maga are suddenly going to start buying electric cars.
Maybe they should buy EVs to own the libs.
That would… make me angry. So angry. Noooo…. Don’t!
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It's hurting in the US too. I am not a hard partisan but I would never buy a Tesla anymore because I'd be worried of being seen as making a political statement. I'm probably in the market for an electric vehicle in the next few years.
When I first started seeing Tesla cars on the road, I would think, "Must be nice. I can't wait for the price of Teslas to go down."
Now when I see them, I wonder if the driver regrets owning one.
Guy who owned the company I used to work for owned one when it was considered prestigious, and last year traded it in for a Genesis.
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It’s hurting them in America, too. I used to own a Model 3 and I liked the car a lot, but I would never buy a Tesla again now and it’s all because of this douchebag.
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Elon Musk ~~’s backing of Donald Trump~~ is hurting Tesla’s struggling EV business in Europe
Elon Musk ~~’s backing of Donald Trump~~ is hurting Tesla ~~’s struggling EV business in Europe~~
All the rich folks I know avoid Tesla like the plague because they prefer some level of political ambiguity while driving. Even if they're driving a $500k Porsche, it doesn't come with the "this company is proudly run by a right wing asshole everyone has heard of" vibe, just the regular "I'm rich, SEE!" vibe.
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I was saving for a Tesla until Elon went off the rails. What a douche. Not supporting that.
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I'm actually in the market for a new car, and it's going to be an EV, but Tesla is not on my short list. (not just because of Musk, also because I think those cars are hideous, and I really dislike how a single iPad is used for everything. I need some physical buttons, especially for the airco unit) Instead I'm looking at the Renault Scenic or the Kia EV3.
Not a problem, he will just sue everyone that did not buy a Tesla.
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