The Tesla Model 3 dropped from first place to third, behind the Toyota Camry and the Honda Civic, among all passenger cars sold.
They’re not “getting revenge” for him leaving California, they’ve stopped buying cars of dubious quality from an immature, arrogant, and very literal white nationalist.
Yes, to me Tesla switched from the most desirable car to the least desirable one, exactly because he turned out to be a cunt.
Also in California I see more interest in other electric cars. There are tons of Teslas, but pretty much all new EVs (with temporary license plates) seem to be different brands.
My current ICE may be due for replacement after over a decade of use.
I want an EV with NACS that isn’t a Tesla. And so I wait. I don’t need anything complicated, but I don’t want to own a car with the “wrong” kind of port.
Edit: Or they could layoff the entire Super Charger team at a time the build out is most necessary and leave things super uncertain.
To car manufacturers: don’t trust Musk. I don’t have strong feelings about which connector “wins,” I just don’t want to be using the one no one else does. And that depresses the value of the car.
Pretty sure you can get an NACS adapter now, but otherwise non Tesla vehicles pre-equiped with a NACS port are due to arrive next year.
You have exactly summed up my views. I currently have a 2020 MY and it convinced me that I probably won’t buy another ICE vehicle. With all the crap coming out of Tesla and Musk lately, I also can’t imagine getting another Tesla.
I’m just waiting for NACS to be built in and hoping today’s layoff news doesn’t ruin that as well…
Also Californian, and I’ve seen Rivian’s presence exploding here in the LA area. If I needed to buy a new car today, Rivian is what I’d get.
Personally, though, I’m holding out for Aptera. The practicality of their dedication to extreme efficiency is just off the charts.
Plus there’s better cars.
Yeah it’s not the status symbol it used to be.
Yeah, might as well put a KKK bumper sticker on the thing.
Off topic but I’m always amazed how many of the posts in the Fediverse are about Elon Musk. People are obsessed with this cunt.
Well I mean he’s interesting as a case study, his decisions have real world implications and it seems like he’s on a path to a meltdown that many people would love to witness in real time
It used to be fun to disabuse others of the Tony Stark facade. It’s not as rewarding these days, now that everyone knows he’d grab a monkey by the tit
I suspect there’s a disproportionately high number of users on the fediverse because of this decisions with X
He has certainly figured out how to be everywhere. Those who find him unlikable love talking about him just like his fans.
I’d like to filter him out, but writers can’t seem to stop writing “Elon Musks SpaceX” as if we had to be reminded every time who owns the thing. Imagine every time we talk about Apple we put Tim Cook in front of it
Fediverse is very tech inclined, like Reddit is. So there’s a higher proportion of tech Bros compared to places like Tumblr.
There’s always at least one “All the Elon haters going to love this” type of cope comment in every post regarding him on the service.
Before, it was pretty much just Tesla. Now the market has more choices. They’re not dumping Tesla, they just have options now.
They are also dumping Tesla.
If I were on Tesla’s board, I would be doing my best to get Elon the hell away from the brand.
The problem is that he placed people who are loyal to him on that board a long time ago. That’s how he took control over Tesla and kicked out its original founders to begin with.
Tesla makes unsafe, garbage vehicles.
With that despicable personality, and a face that looks more and more like a blob fish removed from the ocean depths, this guy proves on a daily basis that money can’t buy everything.
Non paywall: https://archive.is/yzWfH
Thanks!
I guess “shopping local” actually still has meaning.
Paywalled, but if that was for q1 the model 3 was ramping up the highland model. The numbers from q1 are meaningless.
Edit: someone posted a non paywalled version and it is q1. So ya, it’s meaningless.
Edit: it’d actually be better to see how the Model Y did in Q1 as a litmus test.
Edit: Reuters reports model Y best selling vehicle in California in Q1
Even if Tesla somehow managed to de-Elon themselves and address the quality issues, those cars look so dated compared to other EVs that are available and what’s coming soon.
They gave the model 3 a facelift but they really need a major bodystyle update across the whole line. Nothing in the entire line looks much different than the 2009 prototype model S.
They went from being futuristic to boring as fuck.
