Looks like Elon took the “shut your stupid fucking mouth up” advice. Too bad the damage to his image is irreversible. Oh well. I’m afraid I’m all out of tiny violins as well.
Apart of Elon being idiot why would we even consider buying Tesla anyway? Competition is much better when it comes to things like access to authorized service. Charging network is a non-issue in Europe as we have full roaming and one socket standard and brands like Kia, Mercedes or even BYD have competitive prices while all being great quality.
Also, one huge Pro to not having a tesla is not having to worry about it blowing up for no reason.
Or having it vandalized.
Or it being a death trap in an accident.
c'mon, incidental explosions are what make life exciting!
Or (hopefully?) not having private stuff the car recorded passed around the company's office for chuckles.
According to Tim Urban's blog article on Tesla and Muck from 2015, one of Muck's stated goals was to jumpstart the other auto manufacturers into producing their own EVs to accelerate the trend toward a more sustainable energy future. Whether that was true then or now is irrelevant, but it is nice to see EVs of many brands being made and purchased. Obligatory Fuck Muck, existential disappointment that he will forever be.
That is the one credit I will give to Tesla and Musk, they made the EV not only a realistic choice, but actually cool.
The original Model S was a cool car when it was launched, but now there are plenty of other cooler alternatives.
The current move towards electrification would not have happened or would have taken a lot over without Tesla. The Model 3 really was a huge breakthrough by showing that you can build a car that people actually want to drive and make it affordable. That pretty much made all the excuses of the incumbents moot.
I am unaware of any other EV that has sentry mode on the cameras like that on the Tesla. Would absolutely love to be proven wrong.
AFAIK Kia has a Korean only release EV6 that had it, but none of the other options utilise the whole suite of cameras to record.
Why is sentry mode the the bar to cross?
It's not specifically "the" bar, but the original comment was saying they didn't see how Tesla would even be considered, and I felt this feature is one reason why someone may still consider a Tesla.
For me, my dash cameras have come in handy when my vehicle was running, but the hardwire mode has not been able to handle what I wanted it to. I want my next vehicle (whenever that may be) to be an improvement over what I already have. I have personally had my vehicles damaged more than once whilst it was parked, and I have always parked well. Sentry mode would have been very bloody useful to have the responsible parties pay up. Instead, I was left with a damaged car, which was notably rather heartbreaking when one incident occurred within the first month of ownership.
EDIT: My motorcycle was hit and if I hadn't had known, I wouldn't have been aware enough to take it to the shop to be inspected in case any of the internals had been damaged. Sometimes damage can be internal and without an alert, you would be putting yourself in danger.
who had hoped anger toward Elon Musk would have faded by now
Even fucking goldfish remember what he's done. He has irreversibly associated Nazism with Tesla at the same time that cheaper and better electric vehicles are coming out of China. The only way is down and that's not going to change until he is no longer part of Tesla and a lot of time has passed.
Eve if he suddenly no longer had influence over Tesla, he's ruined their reputation enough that others have had time to catch up and make better vehicles.
Cheaper and better EVs are here from lots of European, Korean, and (to a lesser degree) American brands.
It's been a long time since was "the only choice".
There is precedent for a car brand started by a Nazi successfully shaking that image eventually
Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?
🤣 🤣
a blow to investors who had hoped anger toward Elon Musk would have faded by now
Methinks they may have underestimated Elonazi's dickishness, stupidity, arrogance, and power to piss people off...
OMG that's funny. 🤣 🤣
Not too mention Tesla stock being his slush fund to ruin the world with his Nazi bullshit
Hey elon dont worry the right wing nut jobs are gonna start buying your teslas, ah right most of them are broke lol
Even better they don't drive teslas cause they want those gas guzzler.
Awww go fashy, stonk crashy :'( :'( LOL
Oh, i thought it was only down because Elon was off in Washington making America super awesome and not around to provide his brilliant leadership to Tesla
Well, at least his big robotaxi trial is going smoothl— uh, oh no.
Let's keep it going, I wanna get paid for getting a Tesla.
Sad part is that they’re getting outcompeted by the Chinese EVs, not the European carmakers. The whole money will just fund CCP’s ambitions instead of US ambitions, neither of which is good for European future
I hate how much BYD pays people off. And they're suing people in China for "damaging their brand". I guess so did Tesla that one time, but only one of them runs slave camps (including outside of China).
And this is only one of their dubious “techniques” to lower the costs: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Presumably-Chinese-industrial-spies-stole-VW-data-on-e-drive-technology-9692416.html
Even European brands like Polestar belong to Chinese companies by a large share. But yes, German car manufacturers were asleep at the wheel and now they even lobby against the combustion engine ban because they would be left with near zero business.
German car compete too busy fucking over their customers to notice china taking over.
Do you have numbers? Because Chinese cars are growing by triple digits because they were basically at 0, the numbers I saw recently VW, stellantis, Hyundai, BMW and Mercedes were in the top 10.
And their stock is still too damn high!
that stock price is not rooted in anything real (and hasn't for a long time). I can't wait until that bubble bursts with a bang i can hear from Europe.
I read Musk fired the Tesla manager for Europe and North America over the low sales, as if those weren't a direct result of Musk's own actions. Like there is only one person responsible for pushing the stupid cybertruck and for associating the brand with fascism.
Ohhhh, nooohhhh...! How teeeeerrible...! I'm shóck!
At this point if a person buys teslas they are either a Nazi or ignorant and neither is good.
Ignorant, e.g. the "I didn't know" crowd 1 mile downwind of the concentration camp.
I’ll be happy when there’s nothing to report because there are no more sales.
Let's hope they drop even further 🙏
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