Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right
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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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Deploreans.
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This asshole is ruining a good chance to cut down on emissions by being the face of EVs
maybe that was the plan
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There is when you abbreviate it to one syllable.
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Even if Musk wasn't a Nazi, he's still a big enough douchebag that I wouldn't want to buy a car associated with him. And even if he wasn't a douchebag, the Cybertruck has demonstrated what kind of stupid shit Tesla does when they take orders from him. And even without Musk's influence, I still wouldn't buy a Tesla because there are so many other options on the market, and people have gotten very vocal about things like the build quality of Tesla cars.
That's gotta start hurting their stock price at some point.
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I think Brexit disproves all that.
I've lived in Portugal, The Netherlands, Britain and Germany and the most unhinged ideas of populism I ever saw upclose which were the most widespread amongst the population, were in Britain during the Leave Referendum and afterwards - the same unhinged Racism of the Far Right all over Continental Europe which at the time had less than 20% overall support, in Britain yielded to the Leave faction of the Tory Party one referendum and two Parliamentary Elections and would've won them a 3rd one if the Populist Rightwing vote hadn't been split due to the rise of the (even more unhinged) Reform UK party and a First Past The Post system that turned that split vote into lots of constituency losses (to the point that Labour got 64% of MPs on only 34% of votes).
Don't confuse the quality of image management that results from the training most British Politicians got as children in very expensive and very posh private schools, with them not being populist - somebody like Boris Johnson was spreading the same kind of ideas as Trump, Orban or the Far-Right in the rest or Europe, he was just much smoother at it, mostly because whilst for example in the US the idea of "important person" is somebody who is loud, cares not about manners and sounds confident, in Britain it's somebody who is posh, has soft upper class accent and sounds confident, so populist leaders in Britain, being well adapted to local prejudices, project a different image than the loud and brutish ones abroad, whilst defending the very same ideas.
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This definitely fits the bill of ‘make the problem worse’
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The thing is that the far right in Germany is nowhere near as popular as the Republicans in the US. And the intersection of Tesla buyers and far right voters is very small. Musk made a grave mistake in the marketing department here.
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Great!!
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Elon Shitler has a nice ring to it. #PresidentElon please use this hashtag in all your sm post. We need to sew divide wherever we can and baby Trump really cares about shit like this.
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These are working class people you are talking about. Please keep the focus on millionaires and billionaires.
