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High interest rate,
Competition starts to offer decent electric car
People who can afford a fancy car already got one
Musk behaves like a fascists
Not a surprise
Also antagonizing the local populace by making backroom doors to bypass restrictions for their factory in germany.
Circumventing the Swedish labour model by refusing to talk to unions, stealing money from workers that wish to engage with strikes, and bringing in foreign labour force to circumvent union blockades.
Given how high fascist parties like AfD, RN and the Brothers Of Italy are riding in the polls, you’d expect some of the glow to rub off on Tesla and boost their sales, but Musk doesn’t even have the soft skills to pull that off.
The real fascists don’t want to drive electric, and their voters usually can’t afford them.
The people that agree with Musk, think climate change is fake and that if it were real electric cars would polute more than ice cars.
I think it’s Musk’s behaviour that is the most off-putting to potential buyers. That idiot really needs to be replaced, otherwise the company will fail.
Yeah agreed but the board are sycophants, so he’s not going anywhere. Tesla will fail, by recent events much quicker than people may have expected.
It’s a shame, but their management went bad. It happens. A lot, really.
The board might get a kick up the butt by lawsuits from shareholders soon. When it comes to protecting the interests of rich people, the US legal system might be effective for a change.
It’s kinda the company’s only shot. And even then it’ll take years which they probably don’t have now.
Teslas are badly made, with good specs. The issue is that you can buy a well made EV with similar specs for less nowadays. Musk doing what he does, does not help. The smart move for businessmen is to stay out of politics as long as it does not effect them.
Love EVs, hate Musk… not sure how to feel :-/
Just because Tesla sales are down, doesn’t mean EV sales are down.
Yeah, but they are…
At least the article says that EV sales overall are flat, not increasing or decreasing.
The only edge Tesla has is the software stack. All the rest is meh. But it is kind of amazing that traditional carmakers are still struggling to catch up on the software front. To be honest, the whole auto industry is heading in a very bad direction, where they think of the car as a way to harvest data of their customers and to introduce their SaaS offerings
We’ve got an Tesla and an Volkswagen ID3. Tesla’s charging planning is pretty good. Volkswagen’s driving assistants are vastly superior to Tesla’s (despite not being oversold as “autonomous driving”).
IIRC, the first robotaxis are operated by companies owned by Google and General Motors, and the only car that has a licence for fully autonomous driving in Germany (up to 60 km/h, only on Autobahn) is a Mercedes.
No, Tesla’s autonomous driving is not cutting edge.
up to 60 km/h, only on Autobahn
Huh, how does that go together? Aren’t you supposed to go at least 80 or something on an autobahn?
Minimum speed for vehicles to be allowed on the autobahn is 60. This is an autonomous traffic jam assistant – you can sleep during traffic jams now.
AFAIK it’s intended for stop and go traffic jam situations, also Autobahn is at least 60km/h.
Your vehicle needs to be capable of 60km/h to legally drive on the Autobahn, if you don’t want everyone to hate you 80km/h as that’s the speed limit for trucks.
The Mercedes thing is a traffic jam assistant, if you don’t take over when traffic speeds up again it’s going to pull over or something.
I am talking about the infotainment system, and the OTA update functionality.
The infotainment is utter garbage for a proper car(!) infotainment and OTA updates are available for basically all major car brands these days.
Up to 60 km/h on the autobahn
Does not compute
You mean 160?
No, 60. seriously.
Unlike all other driving assistants you are allowed to let the car dive unsupervised on it’s own. Since 60 km/h is sort of the minimum speed for the German autobahn, this is an autonomous traffic jam assistant – you can sleep, watch tv or do whatever you like during traffic jams < 60 km/h.
Honestly I’m pretty happy with the software stack in my Volvo. But then again it’s basically stock Android.
That and the supercharger network, right?
Only in North America. Europe has quite a few competing charging networks, and cars can work on all of them because of EU standardisation. The superchargers are typically more expensive compared to the others.
No, they are one of the cheapest and easiest to use.
