Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! As we’ve discussed a few times, Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s dramatic, public departure into deep right-wing political culture has been turning many buyers and shareholders off from Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA). I’ve seen multi...
that whole movement is so funny to me, like they tried to move to a different beer after bud light did a harmless advertisement and their replacement WAS FROM THE SAME PARENT COMPANY
I mean that's just AB InBev working as intended. I walk into my local food lion and the only beers I know or suspect aren't AB InBev are Yeungling or the five local microbreweries that only make IPAs.
It's a conundrum wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an eggroll served as a happy ending at a shady massage parlor totally opaque to the comprehension of all mortal minds except literally everyone with more than half a brain!! XD
Actually it would still be lucrative as hell if Russia hadn't started an invasion and gotten themselves sanctioned to hell. A bit harder to get those bribe payments out when no one takes your money any more!
Nah, genius move. Here’s a few billion dollars bonus of our shrinking profits from the next decade or so, so you don’t lose motivation. - half brain dead Tesla board.
I could afford to get one and I would like to have an EV but I will not buy a Tesla also. The Twitter douche is part of my reasoning but also Tesla cars are THE WORST in regard to privacy as they collect a shit ton of data and upload it all the time. Mozilla rated Tesla at the very bottom of their chart of "from Bad to Worst" ranking cars on privacy.
I mean it's also a trash car with terrible UX design which should be your main issue with it, data collection doesn't matter when you crash your car because you need a touch screen for everything.
Kia and Volkswagen are massively eating away at the Tesla share, because under Musk's leadership, Tesla doesn't have a Unique Selling Point any more. Other networks are catching up in terms of charging speed and even then Tesla sell access. Their other USP was FSD and Musk isn't investing enough in it. All this while his products are taking a hit due to his public image. What's crazy though, if he delivered the new Roadster or the Truck, he would've increased market-share.
The truck was never going to increase market share, it’s too divisive, dangerous, and poorly built. Plus slow and expensive to build (even to the low quality standards Tesla is becoming infamous for).
The sports cars is for who exactly? Those don’t increase market share, it’s just a prestige car. Also a big part of the sports car market wants sound, and doesn’t drive them daily either. When it’s a weekend toy, so being electrified has a smaller positive impact, and likely will never even out the material production pollution vs usage pollution.
I think that's the biggest part. Tesla gained it's huge market share by having the right product at the right time with the right company image. Tesla should have been focusing on fixing their quality issues, and should have either booted Musk or chained a PR person to his side. Instead they put out the Cybertruck, which is divisive at best, and have a CEO who seems to be doing everything he can to destroy the good will of their core market.
It was inevitable that the mainstream manufacturers would catch up.
Plenty of Toxic Right wingers with small Willy's need their car to make loud noises so they can pretend to be alpha's . They're not the target market
Left wing people are the primary market for EVs. But he has done everything he can to piss us off and even bolster the guy who is actively fighting EVs
So, no idea who his target market is meant to be at this point. Why would anyone running a company promote a president who fights against their products 😂
If he’s going to sell his Tesla shares to fund Xitter and his crusade to pull the world to the far right, that could be its best hope. If, say, Toyota or Ford or someone pick up Tesla, cherry-pick its best technology, add their own expertise in actually making reliable cars and keep the marque as their electric vehicle line. They can offload the Cybertruck to Hummer or some other toxic-masculinity-oriented brand.