Electric Vehicles

Right. Because that's the ONLY reason we aren't buying Tesla shit. It has nothing to do with the cost of everything sky rocketing.

How many of those are the target demographic for Tesla?

I would not buy a Tesla because of musk, but also because I don't have the need for a car or the income for one.

That’s a full quarter of the US public that won’t consider great electric vehicles

This is subjective.

including the best selling vehicle in the world

This is distorted by the fact that they have fewer than half a dozen models. They aren't even in the top 10 brands world wide. BYD is in the top 10 and they sell twice as many vehicles.

Tesla isn't growing and as the foul Musk spread through global politics the brand will fall more. He wasted his first mover advantage. It's just a waiting game on how long the market will remain irrational with the stock price.

Yeah fuck this guy

Tesla has “tech”!?!??

They sell average EVs, a bunch of branded meme items, and a stock. No tech.

You avoid Teslas because of Elon Musk. I avoid Teslas because of security, privacy, and proprietary tech concerns.

We are not the same.

/j

I hate how, when he needs some money, he can just drop a crypto meme coin name somewhere on social media and watch the price go up. He can then sell all of the coins he undoubtedly bought beforehand and sit back and watch a couple of millions added to his bank account. He did it a couple of times with doge, and now with kekius. I'm not smart enough to follow the money for crypto coins, but I'm sure someone could identify one or more whale accounts with suspicious buying and selling moments for these coins as Musk's secret little money factories. (Or the creation of a couple of thousands of smaller accounts, if he really wanted to conceal his tracks)

They’re also not good cars. There’s no reason to buy a new one in 2025

great electric vehicles

You could've shutted the fuck up and profited

For me, its more about the fact that I don't trust that unhinged motherfucker to not do a mandatory update in the middle of the highway and disable braking.

The problem is how many are still ideologically attracted to him or the MAGA movement and how likely are they to be impulse buyers. Musk already made sure to get the most money he could out of the nerds that would have no problem moving onto competitors once there was legitimate competition. There's legitimate competition, meaning that in order for Musk to continue making the big bucks, he has to appeal to the same sort of market Alex Jones was able to peddle bullshit dietary supplements to.

Those are rookie numbers - you gotta pump those numbers up

Other 75% just don't want to spend that much fucking money on a car.

Count me among the boycotters. Musk has made it all but certain I'll never ever buy any product or service he benefits from if I can avoid it.

Also...

Musk’s highly abnormal involvement in ~~US~~ world politics

There. FTFY.

I can't boycott Tesla because of Musk because their reputation for poor build quality and horrific servicing means I wouldn't even consider them to begin with. That and I want my control stalks.

I own a 5yo Tesla. I would have upgraded, except for the fact that giving more money to Musk is horrific.

A family member had a deposit down on a Cybertruck and was ready to buy one. They canceled their deposit and bought a different EV because of how much they despise Elon now, so it's not just sour grapes from people that couldn't/wouldn't buy one anyways.

I have yet to purchase a single product made by the racist loser and I will continue to do so.

Sad that it's only 25%.

I can’t think of anything else as significant in consumer product sales.

Some people may still be boycotting Chick Fil A and Hobby Lobby. Though I doubt if it's 25%.

I'm more deterred by the amount of control that Tesla retains over their vehicles after they've "sold" it. But if that wasn't enough, Musk's descent in oligarchic fascism certainly would be.

Musk is clearly bad for the companies he heads. I'm eagerly awaiting the investor lawsuits. The stocks will probably have to dip first, though.

It’s not just their vehicles. I just bought a ‘24 Ioniq 5, and Hyundai is set to start sending out free adapters to use Tesla Superchargers, but I probably won’t plug into one of those either, because it benefits that moronic man-child oligarch.

The rest avoid it because they're shit cars

25% of 800 U.S. citizens surveyed is not indicative of the entire country. Not only that, the original study release here (as far as I could find) doesn't state how or where the survey was conducted.

A survey done in California would be wildly different than one done in Mississippi. That article and this post are ethically dishonest, and the study proves absolutely nothing.