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Tesla beats lawsuit claiming it monopolizes repairs, parts::A U.S. judge dismissed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla of forcing customers to pay high prices and suffer long waits for repairs by monopolizing the markets for vehicle maintenance and replacement parts.

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This might actually have a Streisand effect, in that many people who were looking to buy an electric car may not have heard of this, and so will now factor this in to their purchasing decisions and pick something else.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ruling says people already know this when they buy it, so would it actually have any extra impact?

Also service is getting better, but the road ahead of them is quite long

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The ruling says people already know this

The ruling might say that, but it's a shit ruling that at least one point reverses the burden of proof, so all bets are off, really 🤷

Besides, this case was about Tesla specifically, not EVs generally.

Musk is infamous for overpromising to the point of just making shit up and Teslas have notoriously shoddy build quality resulting from a quality assurance policy of "don't", so it's hardly a surprise that they're at the shop much more than Musk said they would be..

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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