Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoThis is what I hate. One is owned by a fuck cunt. The other is owned by china. Neither one are actually good options if you are not buying one because of their beliefs
Patch@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Other options exist; you don’t have to buy either. Volkswagen Group, Audi, Renault, BMW, Fiat etc all make EVs in Europe. Hyundai & Kia also both make excellent EVs.
Buying a Tesla is a choice these days. Nobody trips and falls into Tesla ownership. And although those cheap Chinese manufacturers look mighty tempting, they’re not the only alternative out there.
declaredreprimand@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Though, you don’t want to buy German either if you want to support “good”. VW, Audi, BMW, all German car mafia.
derpgon@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
On a side note, Audi and VW are both under the same owner.
Why are German cars a bad choice? I’d rather buy German than get another Citroen tbh.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’ll probably be based on some silly WW2-era grudge, which I find stupid.
Or Dieselgate, which while awful, despite what the headlines would have you believe, the VW group was far from the only manufacturer with illegally high diesel emissions, in fact, they were far from being the worst.
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There are of course other things, VW has started trying to get into the DLC for cars bullshit that others have, but IMO that pales in comparison to Elon’s bullshit or China literally using slave labour.
uzay@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Well, Germany is still actively supporting a genocide, and their car industry is probably supplying a not-insignificant amount of funds for that.