Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right
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Boycotts by individuals are legal.
For now...
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There's no H in fascist.
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It's everyday my pal
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I have yet to find someone who is truly just "Posing" with this shit and not just using "its a joke, bro" to claim not following that ideology. If they didnt at first, they developed that ideology quickly.
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I imagine that the federal government will be buying Teslas by the shipload
The army will be replacing humvees with cybertrucks.
Tesla will announce a CyberTank to replace the M1
i'm only sort of joking
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My impression from living there is that the UK never ditched the mindset that some people are born inherently superior to others, and that's both for different parts of British society along the axis of class (an in many cases also the different nations of the UK, with the English often seeing themselves as superior) and towards foreigners (Brexit did not happen in a vacuum).
I have the theory that is because the UK never really had a Revolution started from below (the closest they had were the Barons rebeling against the King leading to the Magna Carta or the Catholic-vs-Protestant fighting which was mainly different factions of the elites re-approportioning power) or Occupation by a foreign power that crushed the existing elites and loosened their power over the entire system, hence the established elites never really changed and thus the power structures in Britain, who those structures serve and who controls them, has changed a lot less over the last couple of centuries than elsewhere in Europe.
They're not as much Fascists in a traditional sense but more an continuation of a Monarchic semi-Autocratic system were the power of the King was weakenned centuries ago and divided amongst the rest of the Landowner Class and later the Trading Burgeoisie. Fascism in Europe one of the reactions to Republicanism, but the UK never had a Republican phase and so a lot of the ideas on power and the worth of people in Fascism which are really just re-hashed monarchic thinking on who are the proper rulers are still present in the British system in their natural (though more sophisticated in means and appearence) form.
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Destroying peoples property is not the answer. Declining sales figures is.
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Not that much, but definitely measurable. A Tesla competitor did some tests and they got a 1% range increase.
Replacing side mirrors with cameras also has a similar impact, but costs like 3.000 euros as an option.
So your choice of wheels has a bigger impact, but it's not totally pointless. And cheap to do.
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To give the car time to lower the window a few millimeters and avoid damaging the seal. Plus someone probably thought it would look cool or something. There's a manual release in case the car loses power, or something breaks.
It's not unique to Teslas either, a few other cars have done the same thing.
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"Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth" - 287-212 BC
"Just give me a damn lever" - 2025
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And make Tesla more money by selling replacement windows? Nah. If you need to let out your anger on random people's cars, buy some "Fuck Elon" stickers and stick those on the back.
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IMHO only FSD is something they could potentially achieve, but it took them so long the competition is catching up. At least in Europe (where Teslas have barely functioning traffic sign recognition) other manufacturers have level 3 ADAS in production. Like legally certified and everything.
Their batteries ( both mobile and grid storage) are nothing special, the 4680 is MiA, catl and BYD have bigger market shares already, I don't know about Panasonic and other manufacturers, could be too.
And the robot is vaporware unless proven otherwise.
I'm not a gambler so I won't short it (Elon can give himself trillions in government assistance now), but sure as hell wouldn't hold it anymore.
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I'm probably not your coworker, but it was the case with me. I liked the guy when he was a weird nerd and I liked the car.
I still like the car to be honest but I'm seriously considering buying a bumper sticker with "I bought this before I knew he was a Nazi".
No way I'm buying another one as long and he's related to the company in any way.
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Swatzicar!!!!
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Not sure if it's just the promotion of the far-right parties.
For me at the latest after his "Heil Hitler" salute I'd be completely ashamed driving that car.
Might be interesting to see the exact daily timeline of the sales, if it collapsed after the 20th january.
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Their batteries may not be special, but if they can scale to what they were promising a few years ago (which is a much bigger "if" than it used to be), their battery business could easily surpass BYD's, which could justify its current market cap on its own (but not much higher).
I've got mixed feelings on FSD. I think it's nearly "solved" for places with nice climate, but I think there's a lot of work needed to deal with inclement weather like snow and slush and even heavy rain. I don't think any company has any idea how to solve that issue, so they're just pushing it down the road until someone else solves it first.
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