75% of americans are selfish assholes.
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I legitimately used to want a Tesla car, long long ago.
Opinions of him are negative here in the UK as well. In April 2022, 40% of Brits had an unfavourable opinion of him. By August 2024, that had risen to 64%.
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.
Then that is the reason that you are avoiding them. They know you aren't buying. What's important here is the people that can afford a Tesla but are choosing to look elsewhere because of Elon. This includes repeat customers as well.
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.
I've had one for over 5 years. I'm not buying another car for about 5 years but its not going to be a Tesla.
I was looking at an electric car, decided against it because they are way too expensive. But during my research Tesla was completely out of the question for me because I will never support that piece of shit.
My SO always reminds me how I wanted to buy a Tesla around 2018 and was a big fan of Elon Musk having read his biography. Fortunately or unfortunately he decided to not keep his mouth shut lol. I won’t consider buying Tesla for any reason, even if they start ranking as the best quality built car.
just bought a kia instead of Tesla, also my house came with level 2 CCS
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 avoid teslas because I have a white car and I don't want them to crash into me.
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.
Exactly this, I would've bought one eventually if he'd just shut up, a lot of would.
But why would I support an openly racist, fascist, fuckhead trying to buy his way into power? Toyota, Honda, Kia, and all the other corpos are plenty evil and have the manufacturing and support experience an auto maker needs.
The idea of a generic parts "libreauto" is cool. A frame/chassis designed to accept drop-in parts from other established manufacturers so you could part out wrecked cars and assemble them into your own frankencar.
Yeah fuck this guy
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
Even now I'm pretty sure they have one of the best if not the best drivetrains. The problem is everything else is total trash and you won't be able to fix it if anything goes wrong
That's the thing that sucks. Engine tech is incredible. Everything else is miserably and embarassingly bad. Even if Elmo wasn't such a colossal fucking bigot, I would never consider getting a Tesla for the asking price, or used
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Tesla has “tech”!?!??
They sell average EVs, a bunch of branded meme items, and a stock. No tech.
You could've shutted the fuck up and profited
And Donald Trump could have invested his inheritance and made more money than god, yet look at them now?
That's the problem when people are born on 3rd base. They get to walk it in and think they hit a home run when really they just did what any normal person would've done. Someone else would probably even do it better.
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.
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.
Those are rookie numbers - you gotta pump those numbers up
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.
He is one of the most dangerous people today. Not one penny of my money will go to him willingly from me.
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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.
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.
At least they also don’t have to put their car into CAR WASH MODE to not brick it getting a clean hahaha
It may be difficult to really say who's part of that group. Years ago, I definitely wanted a Tesla. Would I have been part of that group at that time? Then the downsides started to show up. Poor QA. No independent repairs. Expensive repairs and poor warranty coverage. Their vision of a car controlled by an app. Then Musk went insane.
Then later, when I was in the market for a new car, I didn't seriously consider a Tesla. I looked at them briefly to make sure I wasn't missing out on something big, and found the options to be lackluster. I ended up buying a Bolt.
Would I have bought a Tesla, were it not for Elon's political actions? TBH, probably not. The repairs thing really turned me off. Even though it's largely theoretical (I've yet to find an independent EV mechanic), it's very important that I have the possibility.
I own a 5yo Tesla. I would have upgraded, except for the fact that giving more money to Musk is horrific.
Same, my Model 3 turns 5 years old soon. My original plan was to keep it for at least 8 years until the HV battery warranty expires - but, it has had its first major breakdown in the last 6 months, and although Tesla did manage to fix it I'm now window shopping for a replacement.
I don't think I'll get another Tesla, at least not as the situation stands. If Elon decided to sell it to some unobtrusive billionaire who is content to sit there, shut up and get even richer without meddling in geopolitics - and if they put back the fucking turn signal stalks - then maybe I would consider it, as otherwise the car is easy to live with, pleasant to drive and has acceptable range for what I need - and newer versions will go even further. But, there are a lot of alternatives on the market to consider now as well.
I am sure there is a team of very talented engineers at Tesla, and that they are the reason the company has been as successful as it is, despite the moron in charge of it.
Cars should last like 20 years…
People are getting used to the idea of Vehicles as A Service and it's a terrible fucking idea.
It's ruining cell phones and it'll ruin auto ownership.
I would have upgraded
Why though? Anything wrong with your car?
It's much better for the environment anyway when you keep it longer. 5y is nothing for an electric car, even if it has multiple hundred thousand kilometers it should be fine.
Other 75% just don't want to spend that much fucking money on a car.
I have yet to purchase a single product made by the racist loser and I will continue to do so.
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