Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
-
Like companies getting sued for not advertising on Twitter
-
Tesla is definitely dying unless they can turn this around quickly.
Surplus capacity is expensive, and I bet they are already operating at a loss. And turning around a bad reputation is hard.
Their models are dated, the cheap Tesla is cancelled, and the model Y has already lost a lot of popularity, so even a new mode already said to be mostly a facelift, is unlikely to make a huge difference.
The drop in January in EU is 50%, and they are losing market share in China and USA too. So I think the actual drop is higher now than 88%.
Note that for Nissan a 5% drop last year was called catastrophic!! And they are way bigger than Tesla. -
I'm happy with my stereo being a glorified Bluetooth speaker
-
Hundreds.
-
Don't have a working stereo in my 22-yo truck or 23-yo car. Bluetooth speaker it is!
(I don't generally listen to anything driving. I like to chill and think about life. Which ain't always the wise move.)
-
Musk is neither a Tesla nor an Edison; he is a Barnum.
-
Hell yeah. I prob have a 1/3 split between music, podcasts and silence. Silence do be a double edged sword
-
I'll never stop laughing when Tony Stark treats Musk as a nobody.
Iron Man II, "Yeah. Later. Bet Musk is still proud of that cameo.
-
They all look the same I would never be able to tell myself
-
Isn't a few cop-shops using Tesla cars now already?
I worry how the cars hold up to aggressive driving, after seeing how the truck was pwned so badly by whistlinDiesel .
-
This.
And VWs were survivors, crossing the desert under air cooling and repairable usually with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver.
I worry Teslas wouldn't survive long enough to become classics. They don't seem to be survivors.
/63+71+71super here.
-
Problem is that Trump is on the oil companies' pay rolls. Unfortunately he's subsidizing them instead of Tesla.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349650/trump-ev-tax-credit-tariff-congress
-
“I think that’s a good idea.”
“You do? Then we’ll make it work.”
Sick burn
-
Damn, your temp plates are 90 days? Where do you live?
-
That was the joke, yes
-
Not necessarily Carl Benz himself, but the company has been litigated and has been proven to have had ties to the nazi regime. I’m not arguing that Mercedes was founded on Nazi values, I’m just saying there was a connection and a less than stellar history.
-
That said, if Tesla and other brands were equally weighted in my purchase decision, I’d then happily rule Tesla out based on merit.
-
Are either Ford or Mercedes currently run by Nazis? Can the average person on the street name the CEO of either of them?
The problem with Tesla is that everyone hates the guy who has made himself the face of the company at a time when there are plenty of alternatives.
