Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.
Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.
Teslas are fucking shit cars made as cheaply as possible. People literally burn to death in them trying to find the door handle.
Yes, the CEO is a human piece of shit, but the cars shouldn’t be bought regardless.
That is a design issue, but it is not a cosmetic design issue. Having never been in a Tesla, I don’t know if the fundamentally flawed interior door handle has any great impact on aesthetics. That said, Teslas, even cybertrucks, are very distinctive. Their esthetics have little bearing on the quality of the build (this is the entire philosophy behind knock-off brands).
So, while I don’t thing you’re wrong, that has no relevance to the OC’s statement.
They dont have a door handle for… aesthetics. The cybertruck is a dangerous piece of metal because of… aesthetics.
It’s all part of the overall design of the cars. So I’d say it’s pretty relevant.
I have never seen the inside of a Tesla, yet I can recognize them from a block away. The door handle may be something their owners notice, but it isn’t what makes them recognizable to passersby. This is like saying people recognize iPhone because of the triple tap functionality. It’s unique, but isn’t what makes people recognize them at a glance.
There are perfectly good reasons to not like Teslas, safety and giving money to Elon among the top. Don’t dilute your message with irrelevance and inaccuracies.
The fact that they’ve had multiple vehicle designs that break when it rains is nuts.
At one point they replaced parts with pieces of wood from Home depot.
The batteries last but the motors don’t. They also are impossible to repair from minor crashes and cost a fortune to insure. Parts can take months to source.