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Tesla is done. I wonder who will take the wreckage. Probably GM.
Don’t be so sure. I thought Twitter wouldn’t last a full year of Musk, but it’s still somehow limping it’s way along.
I still like their technology. Hopefully they can figure out how to divest their owner
They’ve basically got the Starbucks problem going except for their customers. Starbucks hired progressive college students for their staff and were shocked when unions started popping up. If a brand targets conscientious people, they’re not going to get a single conservative.
Do I get any kind of points for thinking Tesla sucked before all the political windshift relating to Musk?
I’ve said from jumpstreet that, at best, Tesla is like the Apple of the car world:
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Model releases considered “cool” for the first year or so, because it’s a way to flex on the plebs.
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Pretty soon everybody and their mom has one and the design isn’t very remarkable in and of itself. Therefore the iPhone becomes the basic bitch phone, and the Tesla becomes the basic bitch vehicle.
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Overpriced relative to similar performing products.
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Horribly invasive sensors, bad data privacy, and generalized ecosystem.
Oh it’s why I bought a Chevy Bolt EUV. A way better car for less money. Teslas suck in the electric car world. They opened everyone’s eyes to the possibilities. But that’s it. It’s no longer the only option.
Indeed and that is why we chose a Nissan Leaf with zero issues for 6 years.
EUV gang represent.
What’s the U for?
I have a Bolt sitting in my driveway, but I use my E-bike more than the Bolt.
Utility. Its just a slightly larger Bolt tbh.
I thought the cars were mediocre at best and overpriced. The more I learned the less i liked them.
- Primary door function being completely electronic with a warning that using the manual release could damage the car.
- Proprietary navigation, so traffic data only comes from other Tesla’s.
- Lack of lidar, which has been the standard for accident avoidance tech since forever.
Primary door function being completely electronic with a warning that using the manual release could damage the car
That’s one of the things that was completely baffling to me. It’s really changing a model that was established, functional, tried and tested, just for the sake of appearing cool and with no regard at all for the drawbacks (which kind of sums up Tesla engineering, I suppose).
Like for toy cars that’s fine. But we need people’s evs. I want a dependable, easy to use and maintain hatchback at a good price and ideally union made. Stuff like heated seats would be nice, but ultimately I don’t care to have a fancy tech mobile. That said android auto is something I want.
Those weird doors are stupid. Everything like that just adds cost and maintenance at low value to the everyday user
I would say its worse than Apple in those regards. At least Apple’s hardware, though way overpriced, is decently made. I don’t think anyone in the world ever said that about Tesla.
I remember Tesla having decent looks compared to the other fugly electric cars at the time. The hybrids weren’t terrible like the Prius but they all had that “look”
I’m pretty sure most of those companies made their electric/hybrid options intentionally ugly. That way they could point at the statistics and say “See governments, nobody wants electric!”
And then they turned into squished ugly matchbox cars. Fitting for developmentally arrested CEO.
I hate Apple and always thought Musk was a tool. But, apple products are better than Tesla products. Apple is still overpriced as shit, and has bullshit gatekeeping, but they make solid products, you have to give them that.
Tesla on the other hand always had absolute shit build quality.
People kept circle jercking about how great the software was, but it always thought it was idiotic.
Not having physical buttons / handles is beyond insane to me and I could never buy a car that made me jump through hoops to fucking raise the temp in the car.
Then there’s autopilot, people were raving about that, but again, are you going to trust your life to a company that can’t even get two body panels to match properly?
I’m for advancement and every tech has its growing pains, but musk was always a piece of shit, and Tesla’s mission never seemed to be “make the best car for the consumer”, it was always “what fun shit does the man child want us to play on today?”
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Red states overall don’t have a high enough average income for people to afford enough Teslas to make it worthwhile to open stores/dealerships there.
It’s so weird that they can have their cars here in Texas. At one time I thought we blocked dealerships owned by the car company. Maybe I’m just drunk and remembering wrong. It happens.
When Leon built the factory in Texas, they did not receive the ability to sell the vehicles in state. That may have changed, I haven’t been following.
You are correct. You buy them online and they ship from California and you register them in Texas. Texas has showrooms. They can tell you about the car but they can’t sell you the car. You have to buy it online.
Easier to convince all those manly men to switch from boxer briefs to g-strings than to switch from their F-150s to Teslas.
I thought they already switched to diapers?
Well said! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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