Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
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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.)
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Musk is neither a Tesla nor an Edison; he is a Barnum.
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Hell yeah. I prob have a 1/3 split between music, podcasts and silence. Silence do be a double edged sword
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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.
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They all look the same I would never be able to tell myself
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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 .
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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.
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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
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“I think that’s a good idea.”
“You do? Then we’ll make it work.”
Sick burn
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Damn, your temp plates are 90 days? Where do you live?
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That was the joke, yes
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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.
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That said, if Tesla and other brands were equally weighted in my purchase decision, I’d then happily rule Tesla out based on merit.
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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.
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The issue is that the alternatives generally aren’t that much better in a vacuum. Infotainment vs Tesla infotainment (removing the CarPlay merits): It’s not even close, Tesla is like 10-15 years ahead of everything else on the US market in their price range. Car manufacturers famously lock in their tech and designs something like 3 years before public release.
Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.
Do you want to tow anything more than 1000Kg? Good luck outside of Tesla.
NACS? Not one single other car available yet.
Do you want a dashcam? Rivian is the only other brand, IIRC.
I’m not apologizing for Tesla, but it’s really painful how awfulall other cars are compared to the competition.
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Knowing how badly Tesla has managed their supply chain, it's possible they paid for it in 2016.
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SpaceX turns the impossible into late
