As a, Tesla owner i agree. Musk is awful and Tesla are heading down the toilet. I’d never buy one agian.
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TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoMaybe the Tesla owners who still somehow worship or apologize for Musk, but most of them don’t deserve this at all. A lot of Tesla drivers dislike Musk and regret their purchases at this point.
They were the best electric car to buy for a long time. I don’t fault anyone for buying them in the past. If anyone buys one now, with all the information, and other options we have now, then maybe they’d deserve it.
set_secret@lemmy.world 6 months ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They were the best electric car to buy for a long time.
Well, if you were buying a car with both your eyes wide shut.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What electric car was better than a Model X in 2015?
jdhdbdk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Renault Zoe, Kia Soul, BMW i3 and the list goes on. It just depends on what people expected of their cars.
frezik@midwest.social 6 months ago
None of those had close to the range of the Model X in 2015. Having less than 200mi range makes things difficult. Though with proper charging infrastructure, having more than 400mi isn’t really necessary, and is almost silly.
Woozythebear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Elon Musk was no lesser of a piece of shit back then than he is now.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Five years ago the average person didn’t even know his name, or care. Honestly, even today the average person doesn’t know who he is. My mom barely does. But those people still buy cars, and some of them still buy electric cars.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Doing any amount of research about the cars would bring him up. These people are spending that much without doing any research?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I just popped open an incognito window and searched “best electric cars” and got ten results: all of which mentioned Tesla, and only one of which mentioned Musk. And that mention was “say what you will about…,” which is fairly noncommittal about who he is or what he does. Most people aren’t scrolling Reddit or Twitter or especially Lemmy all the time; they Google a question, and when they get the answer they think “oh, I’ve heard of a Tesla, my buddy Jeff has one” and so they go ask Jeff whether he likes it or not.
Now, in 2024, his name is probably far more recognizable. But five years ago, especially before he bought Twitter? If they did see his name, it would probably have brought associations of rockets if anything.
Or look at the Google Trends results for his name. There’s a spike in May 2020 (when his baby with Grimes was born), a slight bump in 2021 when he was on SNL, and a huge spike in 2022 when he was forced to buy Twitter. Aside from that, the interest in Tesla has always been much higher than the interest in Musk, and people have been less curious about him than about Taylor Swift (for instance).
People just don’t care about the CEOs of most companies they buy stuff from.
treadful@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
If buying things from pieces of shit means we should get fucked by them, then all we would do is get fucked by pieces of shit.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Which honestly isn’t really any different than what we have now