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Yeah awakenings can be rude quite often
No surprise. A fascist leader, and a product line that started looking dated years ago. All while established car companies have caught up. I can’t imagine a future for Tesla that’s not just pain.
They had trouble supllying for the demand and a few months later they are struggling because there is not enough demand.
Looks like an impressive downhill slope for the cybertruck!
The cybertruck looks like something a 5 yo mocked up with crayons.
It has (heavy) stainless exterior panels without a clear coat causing it to need frequent washing or risk rapid deterioration.
The entire Tesla production chain has issues with quality control. Full self driving is just a euphemism for lane assist, adaptive cruise control and a handful of other features and is illegal to operate in most states, (AFIK very few states have allowed it,)
Oh and their CEO is a rich frat boy and also probably the one with the crayons.
The cybertruck looks like something a 5 yo mocked up with crayons.
I need to dig up my first grade notebooks… I’m pretty sure I can claim to have designed the Cybertruck in 1983.
Oh and their CEO is a rich frat boy and also probably the one with the crayons.
I’m not so sure, I’m pretty sure that guy ate all his crayons before he could do any kind of drawing.
He might have had to wait to pass them first, but it should be workable…
Why would they want to cool demand? Anyways, they are doing a pretty good job at it, even if it’s a struggle. /s
Even if he sold Tesla and they are no longer associated, they won’t get a sale from me. In my mind, they and their products are tainted. I hate them with a fervor especially after all the bullshit they pulled against high speed rail. Fuck Tesla.
Doesn’t help that they have a strong reputation for shite quality. It’s really just numerous layers for most of us:
- Product/brand is tainted (as you say).
- Declining quality of their products.
- Reputation (warranted or not) of many Tesla drivers being clueless idiots behind the wheel.
- Still too many embarrassing Musk fans closely associated with Tesla (related to the first point).
- Prices still too high for many.
Not to mention,
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Anti-repair company that forces you to go into certified Tesla Repair servicers. Potential for obsoletion is high, and so is the potential that they could disable/downgrade older models remotely.
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They make most of their money by paying engineers incredibly low wages.
And
- Aggressively Anti Union
- Overuse of touch screen controls
- Poor repairability (nearly all EVs have lower maintenance costs than gas vehicles, but its not clear Teslas do)
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I’ve been scoping out EVs and Teslas are just not even slightly on my radar as a potential option. They come off entirely untrustworthy as a company
And all their designs are dated.
It’s like they have the opinion that they got it perfect first try.
I’m not a fan of Apple style the same but slightly improved each year, but for a. Investment like that, I want there to be a difference in build quality at the lowest end of the spectrum.
Tesla just pushes the exact same thing with new promises of full auto driving
They’re neat, If it weren’t for Musk I’d buy one tomorrow.
Once again, the Simpsons predicted it.
Wasn’t that episode based on a real story from some company?
The only difference is, Homer’s brother was super likable and I felt bad about Homer fucking his car company 🙁
Muskrat on the other hand is a piece of shit.
Elonmobile
Model 3 Long Range is still nearly $50k. They’ll have to cut more for me to even consider. Also; they’d need to fire Elon Musk and deny him his $54 billion pay package.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tesla reported its first quarter earnings during an incredibly shaky moment for the company in which sales numbers and the stock price have both fallen.
Earlier this week, the company approved its latest price cuts for the US, China, and Germany — all major markets for the EV maker.
Musk reportedly delayed the project, preferring to go “balls to the wall” on Tesla’s forthcoming robotaxi, which is expected to debut in August.
In the shareholder note, Tesla made no direct reference to the Model 2 but said it’s focused on leveraging its existing manufacturing footprint to “introduce new and more affordable products.”
“We have updated our future vehicle line-up to accelerate the launch of new models ahead of our previously communicated start of production in the second half of 2025,” the company states.
Earlier this year, Tesla reported lackluster sales numbers in a sign that cooling demand for EVs and rising competition were taking their toll on the company.
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Their net income is down 9%. Not exactly the end of the world.
Why can’t they just make normal good electric cars. Why did they make a weird steel thing that isn’t even road legal on half the planet?
Just make a normal car for god’s sake.
Didn’t Elon play an important role in its design?
I have no idea I don’t pay any attention to him anymore but it would explain a lot.
When Elon kinda first hit the scene I liked him and was on his side. It’s been through his own consistent inconsistencies and double talk, and also plain crazy talk… that has totally turned me off to him in any area. I think if I can go from ‘almost a fanboy’ to ‘give back Twitter you stupid cunt’; I’m likely not the only one.
I’m sick of him. Like all of it. I wish he’d had gotten put in that car they launched into space. He’s such an 🫏🕳️
Yeah, I went from thinking he was like a real life Tony Stark. Obviously Tony Stark is fictional, but Elon seemed like what he could be if he was real instead of fantasy.
I’ve pivoted on my opinion of him so hard that I’ve been side eyeing Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, and the whole idea of a benevolent billionaire hero as billionaire propaganda.
He took his mask off in 2018 when he had the tantrum about his stupid submarine idea being called stupid and then went after the guy who did save the kids personally. He never was able to get that mask to fit again after that.
Obviously Tony Stark is fictiona Tony Stark was based on Howard Hughes.
Yeah but Hughes ran a magazine empire. Tony Stark was like, “what if someone had Hughes’ charisma but also the knowledge to use his resources to develop world-saving technology”. Musk didn’t have that charisma but was able to fake it for a while and the develop tech part IMO is more of what makes Tony Stark than the rest of it.
Hughes built aircraft, cars, dated addresses and owned casinos.
He is the guy in charge of the spruce goose.
Are you thinking of Hearst ?
Oh my bad, I was thinking of Hugh Hefner.
That’s playboy.
Howard Hughes is who Tony stark is based on. Fascinating man.
Yeah, that’s why I thought the Stark comparison was stronger with who we thought Musk was at one time lol.
I see it now though, now that I understand who you actually meant.
I mean, yeah, tony stark is an asshole. Bruce Wayne could do more for Gotham than Batman ever could. Elon IS like them - he only wants to do anything good (or anything at all) if it brings a spotlight to them
He’s effing Lex Luthor, not Bruce Wayne
I feel like I can understand Lex Luthor’s decisions. I disagree with them, but there’s a logical consistency there. I look at Elon and think “I’m supposed to believe this guy is a genius?”
Even that is giving him too much credit.
I’m kinda not mad that he’s crazy AND vocal. What I’m more worried about is when maybe when he older and wiser he shuts up and just starts funneling all that money towards his nutto crazy talk. At least now you can hear him coming.
Yeah, that’s the unnerving part. If he just understood when to STFU and take an L, he could still have the reputation of a savior of humanity.
He’s a what now?
Ass ring!
A donkey disc. Durh.
He’s literally his own worst enemy. If he’d just shut the fuck up and work - but no. He’s used Tesla stock to fund his idiotic twitter shit. Boring company is a dead end. Cybertruck has already seen two recalls and is trickling out to confirmed fanboys only. My only hope is that he doesn’t fuck up spacex. Apparently they have a whole ‘elon management’ team and it’s working.
Yes I think the government is one of the ‘big sponsors’ for him. Even if he dislikes the government 🙄.
I imagine it’s deeeefinitely in their best interests to ‘manage Elon’.
“Sorry Elon we wanted to introduce you to the hardworking rocket scientists, but they hate you and would rather jump off a bridge than be in a room with you. Soooo, we made some nice snacks and joints, and there’s a hot tub you can use too. Doesn’t that sound nicer than belittling people and causing chaos? Yeah? Good? Good. Aww ok you want Ice cream too. Thats ok, just stay away from Mission Control sweety.”
The problem is that a large part of his success is loudly creating his “genius” persona that brings in investors.
But when that persona went full right-wing conservative racist troll, that may have won him some supporters but lost many others.
Any success behind him has just purely been because he’s a walking money bag, otherwise he just seems like a hindrance.
The system sure works /s
When I first heard about him, it was when he took over Tesla and was pushing electric cars to become mainstream against a huge amount of industry pressure trying to squash any effort to move away from fossil fuels. It was an inspiring underdog story, and I was genuinely rooting for the guy. Maybe not in a crazy fanboy way like some people o today, but whenever I heard a positive news story about him it was uplifting to a certain degree.
Then he absolutely humiliated himself with the “pedo guy” comments and his bizarre feud with the truth/reality and my opinion of him flipped then and there. It only went downhill quicker when he started showing his true colors - switching from Democrat to Republican and indulging himself in conspiracy theories, antisemitism and racist ideology cemented my opinion of him. He’s a true blue piece of shit who will say or do anything if he can make money off of it.
I love what he did with Tesla to get it going. That was pretty amazing.
Now he is more of a boat anchor for the brand.
Shockingly there’s not enough fan boys out there to keep them afloat.
I respectable amount of high income individuals would love to have premium long range EVs. Nobody wants to be associated with him. Nobody wants to wait around for 6 hours while the car gets towed if it has a serious breakdown, and nobody wants to deal with resale problems.
The charging network is good, the cars still have some tech in them that is ahead of the competition. But they’re pushing the tech too far they’re taking a page out of Apple’s book and not listening to what people want.
If you’re not going to listen to your customers and you have a horrible image problem, You’re going to have a bad time.
I don’t want my car to be a political statement, thank you.
