• Magister@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      Unfortunately US Billionaires have a lot of societal impact outside of the US. They don’t care about the arbitrary borders that bound us plebians, they have enough money that the borders functionally don’t exist.

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    3 months ago

    The only thing news like this does is to boost these idiots visibility and bring views to these websites. Don’t post this shit

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    3 months ago

    Doesn’t hurt that they are also shit cars made out of melted down plastic from burger king kids meal toys and used dental floss and are prone to bursting into flames after “self driving” into walls or freeway medians.

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      3 months ago

      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.

      • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          Exactly. What I don’t understand is how everyone knows this, but somehow the stock is still high. Somehow Elon is singlehandedly keeping the stock up while doing literally nothing to help the company, make it make sense.

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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      Same demographic, but sadly I already bought a model Y cause I wanted a 7 seater with a 5 star crash safety rating…

      Needless to say the car isn’t good enough to compromise on my morals moving forward and the next car will probably be that VW Buzz. That thing looks so fun.

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        Bought one too. I have a model 3 which I really enjoy and would probably have bought another Tesla next if it wasn’t for Elon going mad.

        So sadly no more Tesla for me. Buzz is nice, as is the beemer i4.

    • capital@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Same. Upper middle class and work for a large hyperacaler.

      Tesla was the only one excluded from my recent EV search. Loving the Polestar 2 so far.

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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.

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        3 months ago

        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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          3 months ago

          Presumably it’s “… worth in stock”, and might even have vesting periods. He doesn’t get that much unless the stock price stays high

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      3 months ago

      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
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        3 months ago

        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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          I won’t buy Tesla but to be fair, the yoke in the cybertruck is one of the few things that every reviewer says works great. There’s no crossover turn, the wheel maxes out well before then so you keep your grip as it is. Instead, the turn input is progressive depending on how much you turn the yoke and dynamic depending on how fast you’re going. They say in practice, it quickly feels very natural.

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        3 months ago

        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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      3 months ago

      That’s good, because people really do conflate the drivers with Elon’s fans, and also with Trump. I’m one of them. Fuck Elon, and fuck every Tesla driver.

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      3 months ago

      Same here, some friends of mine really got into car hacking with Teslas in particular and I was looking forward to sharing more hobbies with them. But at this point, I’d be embarrassed as hell to tell anyone I intentionally bought a Tesla, even a used one. And besides, if I really want the “sleek futuristic electric car by the dedicated electric car company”, Rivian exists (unless their CEO is somehow worse than Elon 😬😩)

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        Rivian needs a Y/3 competitor. It’s over 100k for a Rivian in Canada. A Y is 54k, a 3 is just under 50k to qualify for federal and provincial incentives.

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          3 months ago

          Well lucky for us they have the R2/R3(X) in the pipeline. Can’t come soon enough though, 2026 for the R2 seems like a lifetime away.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, I said that without looking up the prices for a Rivian and remembered why I’m not actually considering getting one 😭. The world just still isn’t ready for an all electric car manufacturer that is both affordable and not run by a manchild smdh

  • madjo@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      Yeah, same. I’m in the market for an EV over the next few years, and Tesla went from the top of the list to the bottom in remarkably short order.