Tesla sales crash 45% in Europe as rivals surge, Musk’s politics spark backlash
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Underperforming the market by 30% is not looking good, or doing fine.
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the dupont family is also heavily inbred too.
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he got 100bn richer, and probably is getting more from plundering the us.
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Reason this has gotten lot of attention is that the way US has been negatively affective international citizens. Even if someone wants to keep their head in the sand when it comes to the US it's hard to ignore when they keep threatening tarrifs and then start threatening allies and forming bonds with their enemies.
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I moved out of Tesla to BYD stocks couple months ago just based on the output and price of their cars and feeling that tariffs aren't going to keep them out forever. Looking good so far.
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Yeah and their battery tech is just far beyond other countries. Was the main driver in convincing me to sell off Tesla and move to BYD couple months ago.
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Oh sorry, I shouldn't have assumed that everybody knows.
For others that may not know, the Tik-Tok strategy was having dual development teams to increase the pace of development. 1 team worked on making designs for new production processes. The other worked on improving that design while the next new process was being developed. The new process and design was called Tik, and the improved design on the same process was called Tok. -
Government contracts to his companies amount to more than $8 million per day currently, expect that number to grow now that Musk can decide which government functions he should privatize for his own gain. Verizon's $2 billion dollar contract with the FAA is likely to be cancelled so Starlink can get their cut.
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Right, right, but wasn't it tic-toc? Not that it matters
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Most shareholders are index funds that replicate the SP500 or other tech indices, they don't give a shit about beliefs and will sue if needed.
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Bill Gates at least made his money by himself, transferred most to a genuine charity, and pledged that 99% of his remaining wealth will follow suit once he dies; plus he convinced a good number of other billionaires to do the same.
Hating on Windows and whatever Microsoft has become over time is one thing, but Gates himself is not a bad person.
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A Nazi salute is a gesture tho
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Why would he learn from it, as far as I can tell it was intentional mismanagement.
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Hope you are right but I'm not holding my breath.
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Isn't he? He may have mellowed, but by all accounts he was an asshole while at Microsoft, he made his money leading them through a hugely monopolistic period (was subject to antitrust litigation on two continents), has faces sexual harrasment allegations and spent a lot of time with Epstein.
Certainly he seems to be a lot better than Musk, I'll give him credit for his charitable efforts, but even in that there's controversy around the undue influence it gives him in the various spheres the charity spends money, pushing private education over public and working to prevent the Oxford COVID vaccine IP rights being waived.
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You are welcome yanks. Now feel free to do your part.
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How exactly? Raising tariffs to 50%?
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Piss off. Weve been doing this https://electrek.co/2025/02/03/teslas-sales-drop-double-digits-in-the-us-biggest-ev-market-while-others-are-growing/
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11.6% vs 45% when Americans are directly attacked by the guy and the matter is time-sensitive.
If you want I can tell instead suggest American Tesla customers to endure and/or take it easy.
