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root_beer , (edited )

I didn’t care one way or the other about the Boer except that he was talking about developing a sub-3 model, which piqued my interest. Then in 2018 he pulled the main character syndrome bullshit with his cobbled-together rescue sub and the “pedo guy” crap, and decided that maybe I’m not that interested, especially as at that time, he was also making a bunch of promises that he clearly had no intention of keeping (aforementioned entry level model, FSD, and so on). Now that I am in a position that I can buy one of his cars, it’s not even on my list, for so many reasons.

His “heel turn” on Twitter was telegraphed a light year away, and while I’m disappointed it’s taken this long, I’m glad he’s finally going to start reaping his blight.

I just hope that Rivian can stay afloat and that their CEO Steve-O is a relatively okay person because that R3 is looking good.

Suavevillain ,
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It would be a good time for another brand to take advantage of this. I get why people don’t want to support this racist weirdo.

BigBenis ,

Yes that, but also the increasing Tesla QA issues over the recent years inspire little confidence

Veraxus ,

I’m one of those. Tesla already had a dubious reputation for quality but I was all-in on the incomparable hideousness of the Cyber Truck (because I’m weird)… but then he turned out to be a bigoted right-wing authoritarian chud and now I won’t touch anything he’s attached to.

Here’s hoping Aptera makes it to market. Honestly, their product will be infinitely more practical than a Cyber Truck, anyway.

jrwperformance ,
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Plus 1 on the Aptera! Electric is the future of personal transport, but not in the way it’s being implemented. Changing our current ICE cars to electric isn’t enough. They are too heavy. The massive batteries require special dedicated charging to charge in a reasonable amount of time. The Aptera is light and doesn’t need a huge battery, and doesn’t need massive charging current to charge in a reasonable amount of time.

Riven ,
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Same I’m a fan of the look of the cyber truck but fuck Elon. It’s the car of the future we were promised by all those old movies.

Wes_Dev ,

To this day, you can still find conservative media that shits on anyone with electric vehicles, for some reason.

Now Musk opened his mouth and said stupid shit, and the other side doesn’t want his cars either. All he’s got left are the people who don’t care, already bought one, or fall over themselves to kiss his feet.

Zink ,

A lot of the conservative world seems to be conditioned to be anti-EV.

BeMoreCareful ,

That conditioning cost a lot of money

Zink ,

No doubt, but was it worth it for them?

Whether it was their doing or the natural gullibility of their base, it has worked incredibly well.

I was going to make a comment about “look who they want to make President again,” but they have been denying reality for decades.

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Ronald Reagan was a brilliant man and his wife had some skills of her own.

ChunkMcHorkle , (edited )
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SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

I’m just upset I didn’t get some of that Nancy action.

PoolloverNathan ,

Misread doing as dung; this does not affect the comment.

pythonoob ,

The new biden decision to phase out the sales of ICE vehicles and that oil money is pushing for more EV criticism

s_s ,

Because oil money

Zink ,

Yeah, decades of it.

Azuzota ,

What he’s got are NFT tech bros who don’t actually know anything about the technology they buy.

ronflex ,

I’d say this is anecdotally false. I live in a rural area in the US and I just keep seeing more and more teslas popping up on the road. I wonder if they are showing up at more dealerships now where more consumers have the opportunity the make an uninformed purchase? Not sure.

I feel like anyone who has done surface level research on a tesla would avoid then. I haven’t even done that and I know just from seeing articles that I didn’t even seek out that they are pretty shitty cars, even if you ignore Elon’s existence.

blazeknave ,

I live in the most Tesla filled city in the world. I’m a fucking dick to them. I’m sorry, but if you’re buying into that Nazi’s cult and I have the choice of being my usual kind self, or taking the opportunity to go ahead of you, cut you off, etc., I’m going to do the latter.

Furbag ,

I was looking at a Tesla in 2019, test drove one and was immediately put off by the faux-luxury presentation of everything and how the infotainment screen was the gateway to controlling literally everything on the car. I later found out about some of the other negatives that were not readily apparent when driving the showroom model like the excessive gaps in the body panels and FSD being essentially a scam that will never be fully realized. Musk went completely off the rails politically not too long after that and I couldn’t bring myself to ever even consider a Tesla now as long as he heads the company. Maybe someday they’ll repair their image when they shed Musk and get QC under control, but I’d sooner buy another PHEV or a competitor’s EV than a Tesla of any make or model.

root_beer ,

Maybe someday they’ll repair their image when they shed Musk and get QC under control, but I’d sooner buy another PHEV or a competitor’s EV than a Tesla of any make or model.

Exactly. I won’t even consider a Tesla until those criteria are met, and even then, it’d be years before I can decide whether they’ve proven they’d changed for the better. As it is, they’re GM to me.

FrankTheHealer ,

I had half a mind to buy one after I graduate college. But I don’t know if I can right now given the fact it directly benefits Elon.

istanbullu ,

Tesla’s biggest market is China. Expect Tesla to tank if the US bans Tiktok. China will retalliate against Tesla and Apple.

OldWoodFrame ,

I am probably in the market for an electric vehicle for my next car in a few years and I would certainly avoid Tesla.

I don’t have huge feelings about Elon but I have the strong suspicion that owning a Tesla makes you look like a neckbeard now.

mycathas9lives ,
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@OldWoodFrame @Potatos_are_not_friends

He said neckbeard. Ha haaa haa it's true

Nioxic ,

Indeed

i am not spending a fucking dime on anything that Elon Musk earns money on

i even deleted my twitter account when he bought it

But, even though Elon is an ass, the way tesla handles repairs on their cars, makes me not want to own one anyway. I wanna just use my local mechanic. Not exclusively teslas own

samus12345 ,
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I think that Elon being an ass trickles down to the way his company does business.

ChunkMcHorkle , (edited )
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samus12345 ,
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Shit rolls (and trickles) downhill!

JerkyChew ,

I had an order for a Tesla solar roof ($50,000ish/and also owned a few grand of TSLA stock. Cancelled the order and sold the stock after he refused to close his factory for Covid and turned all anti-mask. Fuck Elon.

gwildors_gill_slits ,

You probably dodged a bullet on the solar roof:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-solar-roof-panels-cost-energy-nightmare-customer-service-2021-5?op=1

lennybird ,
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Always loved and wanted to support electric cars. But my first will never be a Tesla.

Aceticon ,

It sounds a lot like a case of “Live by the sword, die by the sword”:

  • He has made lots of money by being a tecno-salesman who overhypes like crazy every venture he does, something which would only worked as long as people trusted him, and then he destroyed that trust by showing his true self, very publicly and very loudly, leading people to conclude he’s an arsehole (and if he is an arsehole in things like how he treated the guy saving the kids in Tailand or it politics, it makes sense to expect he’s an arsehole when it comes to over-proming and even lying to get others to give him their money) so all those hype trains he had going (and for example Tesla stock had about 10x P/E of Auto Companies in general, which very much a la-la-land valuation that implies it would take over the majority of the World’s Auto Market - not just EVs but of all Auto sales) are now derrailing.

In this situation it doesn’t really mater what he says about what he’s trying to sell (such as the “good car” statement about Teslas) because he will simply not be believed.

tastysnacks ,

See, this is what I thought his scam was too. Everybody rich enough or hippy enough was already trying to buy his cars. So in order to grow, he needed the conservatives. So his starts acting like them and he gets a new market.

Aceticon ,

The whole accusing the guy in Tailand of being a pedophile doesn’t seem to fit that theory.

Your theory does explain some of his being an arsehole, just not all of it, maybe not even most of it.

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