Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test

AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jettrscga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That article’s from 2012, before Elon Musk popularity took off, and yet you can already get a foreshadowing sense of Musk off the article:

  Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called Top Gear “completely phony” and his company sued for libel and malicious falsehoods.

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  • sizzler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Top Gear were completely phony though, they purposefully ran the battery flat before the demo. This is known. Elons a douche but so is Clarkson.

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    • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also, IIRC, Top Gear have always had a blase attitude towards their influence in the motor world. Given their reputation as petrol heads, and the fact that their review was also critical of the impact of EV’s on the environment, they’ve often fell back on the “we’re an entertainment show, you’re not supposed to take us as experts”, when many manufacturers have often said a negative review could cause significant harm in sales.

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      • sknowmads@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In all fairness though both Hammond and May currently own Teslas.

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