Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla

[southendsunset@lemm.ee]

Fair point. I won’t judge Tesla drivers. I’ll judge Tesla drivers that don’t have a load of stickers on their car.

[kurcatovium@lemm.ee]

Well, I mean a car where I can fit with my wife, two kids, bag of groceries and still drive uphill...

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

Tesla ownership is its own punishment.

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

I'd be interested to see some market analysis that looks into the reasons for the sales declines. In particular, how much is driven by poor product quality versus how much is due to Musk being a knobhead.

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

I'm still friends with my ex, who's American (as I am), but it's far from a distant memory for her. 90% of her extended family on her mother's side died in Auschwitz. Nearly as many on her father's side were murdered too,

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

A family member's a brickie. He ran an LDV Pilot for few years, until it died, and it was useful (piece of shit, but pretty reliable, and cheap to fix when it did break) while it lasted. But newer trucks and small vans aren't nearly as suitable.

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

The British Isles include the Isle of Man (and also Ireland, the Isle of Wight, the Hebrides, the Shetlands, the Isles of Scilly and (debatably) the Channel Islands. Great Britain is the name of the big island that England, Wales and mainland Scotland sits on.

[allnewtypeface@leminal.space]

Well, I did Nazi that coming

[futatorius@lemm.ee]

Except for Jutland, the same could be said of the 400+ islands that make up Denmark. Yet Denmark is universally regarded as part of Europe, despite the main landmass/island pedantry.

[southendsunset@lemm.ee]

When the owner is that political, it becomes political though. “If 9 people sit at a table with one Nazi…” etc etc.

[spirinolas@lemmy.world]

Maybe Musk should sue them...

[southendsunset@lemm.ee]

Mate my wife dresses me but categorising me with them POS trucks is just too far.

[vga@sopuli.xyz]

Ukraine is a candidate country, by the way.

https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/european-neighbourhood-policy/countries-region/ukraine_en

[jericho_kane@lemmy.org]

That can't be, teslas never break and don't need maintenance. Many people said it, smart people

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

The Pilot was ugly as fuck, but from what I've heard they were basically indestructible to a certain point....then there was almost no reviving them. Been considering getting a decommissioned ambulance and changing my trading name to Dr. Stone....
Ambulance is basically set up for a mobile shop, 240 and 110, loads of drawers and cupboards, tie-down points and either a fold down ramp or a hydraulic tailgate. Ambulance services are always refreshing their fleet, they get worked hard, but there's a maintenance standard so even with 180k miles on the Odo they're typically not running poorly. Idk...maybe I'm talking myself into it, maybe it's actually a good idea.

[runawayfixer@lemmy.world]

Pickups have their uses in Europe as well. Where I live, it seems like most pest controllers (rat catchers, an easy to clean open trunk is probably very nice) and land surveyors prefer them over other vehicles. They all use smaller sensible size pickups from Japanese brands though.

I think I've spotted only 2 different modern USA oversized pickups in traffic. Both full black, never a speck of dirt on them, always tailgating someone. They are vastly outnumbered by the sensible pickups, but you just can't miss spotting them in traffic.

[outlierblue@lemmy.ca]

Europeans don't want to drive a Swasticar? Why? Did something happen to make them dislike Nazis for some reason?

[xavier666@lemm.ee]

Or sparks fire, considering it's Tesla

[helloworld55@lemm.ee]

Just wondering, what qualifies as cheap for you?

[squizzy@lemmy.world]

Yeah man I didnt mean to do that, mine dresses me too...or rather she would do a better job of it anyway