Comment on Tesla is reportedly laying off ‘more than 10 percent’ of its workforce
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoMaybe here on lemmy, but I don’t think that’s a majority opinion in the broader public.
This article does a decent job explaining it, EV sales have leveled off or are down across the industry because the EV market has saturated the early adopters and hasn’t yet grown into the early majority. A few things need to happen for mainstream adoption:
- prices need to come down
- charging network needs to improve
- range needs to improve
A reduction in sales means one of those isn’t in line with what the majority wants.
I really need lower prices and don’t care about the other two. I want something for my 25 mile commute, and it doesn’t need to be fancy, it just needs to be inexpensive and reliable. So give me a car with 100-150 mile range where the battery pack is cheap to replace (those sodium-ion batteries look nice).
For our family car, I need better range. We often go on road trips with 400+ miles between stops. Give me that and a better charging network and I’ll consider switching the family car over.
CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Agreed, the echo chamber is real on Reddit/Lemmy. Easy to hate on Elon, but people are acting as if the old men leading most other Fortune 100 companies think any differently than he does. You can find the rare exception, but you’ll have a hard time living in modern society without your money filtering up to a bigot somewhere.
Elon just lacks the filter to keep himself from saying it.