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I mean off the bat that’s one of the worse combinations of people/product I’ve ever seen. I mean off the bat electric car’s target market is people that want to think they are doing something better for the environment.

So… then the guy making them goes loudly in the “fuck the environment” group.

To top it off though, Cybertruck itself always confuses me. I don’t know who the target audience is. The original tesla’s I could look at and think, that’s a cool car, if they ever came down in price I’d be interested.

Cybertruck you look at and think… What a car would look like if you scaled up games from the 32/64 bit console era and made them HD without increasing the polygon count.

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thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The target audience is monied tech bro millenials who really wanted a warthog out of Halo.

The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.

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- mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.
  
  Dont be so sure about that ratio. Plently of “got mine, im all bootstraps” tech bros. Id put the number at about 70/30% against nazis, but no better.
  
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- catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If they wanted a Warthog, they should have gotten a Jeep.
  
  Or built one. There are at least three fully functioning Warthogs out there, I think. I’ve seen the one at Weta.
  
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moleverine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
We’re not all buying EVs for the environment. I bought an EV because I think the car is cool and it’s really enjoyable to drive. It’s nice that the “gas” is also significantly cheaper, but that wasn’t high on my list of reasons to get the thing, either.

The EV owners I’ve talked to didn’t buy them for the environment, either, but I haven’t talked to any Leaf owners or anything. Maybe they’re more environmentally conscious. It being better for the environment long term is definitely nice, and I hope progress continues on batteries made with less toxic components.

Thankfully, I did not buy a Tesla and they were never on my list of options because of Elon. So he definitely alienated a customer due to him being an awful human being. I also won’t use any of their charging stations, since I don’t want them to profit off of me.

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- proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You could say we bought our Teslas “for the environment” in a way, though a bit roundabout. When we bought them (2018), it was after having previously leasing a Leaf which had shit mileage and poor performance over 40mph. We wanted to signal to the industry with our dollars that we wanted the EV movement to succeed. Because apparently money is the only thing they listen to. We knew full well that EVs were only a step toward a greener future or whatever but we wanted the industry to take that step and understand that being environmentally friendlier was important.
  
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