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They’ve already got 200,000 juniper orders in China after FSD went viral there.
I didn't realize Cybersecurity, National Parks, USAid, ATC, & other beneficial forms of government were "waste & abuse" whilst lying about how much is actually saved is nothing to be mad at him for.
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Why? "More cuts, more better" aligns pretty well with my attitudes about government, historically. I would feel the same way if it were Bill Ackman or someone else in there making recommendations instead. Gotta hand it to Elon for not giving a flying F about what people think about him, even if it's negatively affecting his public business (Something I'm very not happy about, to be clear.). I suppose his play could be to drive down the stock price as much as possible to either buy more shares or take it private like his other companies. People have done crazier things.
Lmao, he absolutely cares what people think about him.
"If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go 🤬 yourself. : D"
> mugs to the audience and repeats himself because he didn't get the laughs he expected and assumed they just didn't hear him> later sues several companies for not advertising on Twitter
So, the issue here coming back to this, is that many of the orders are refundable which now means very little until the actual vehicles are in customer hands. Remember, the Cybertruck reportedly hit 1,000,000 pre-orders, but they were all refundable & it's obvious 1,000,000 of them have not been produced. More and more photos come out of them just sitting in lots.
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I think both of them have realised that being loud, obnoxious and controversial gets you lots of attention, and they both crave it. Just like how social media algorithms are designed to increase "engagement metrics" by promoting content that makes people angry.
I think some people care way too much about what others think about their choice in vehicles. The vast majority of the public (at least in the UK) don't give a damn what you drive and those that do are pretty unlikely to even mention it to you let alone do anything to the car, especially when it's covered in cameras. I'd assume Australia isn't all that different but maybe I'm wrong and people are more tribal about it over there.Just saw this. Actually, my daughter made me aware of it during her car spotting on the way home from school. I haven’t seen rebadges yet.
Why Tesla owners are rebadging their cars
Tesla owners have been stripping the badges off their cars and replacing them with different brands, but why? Photos: Reddit Tesla owners have beenwww.drive.com.au
Except Teslas are pretty recognizable and widespread, so doing that is like putting novelty Groucho Marx glasses on the front and hoping nobody will figure it out. If anything, it's probably drawing more attention to them as people are more likely to spot the discrepency and point it out.
Other than what my daughter saw, I don’t think that’s a thing here. However, Mustang and Raptor took over top spots from MX-5 and HiLux, respectively. So there’s that. People buy just about any car that’s on the market. From cheap falling apart Chery cars to Great Wall utes to one million Aussie bucks Purosangue. Between that it’s how long is the warranty.
Possibly. Though I think if someone is keen enough to know what Teslas look like & sees an owner changing the badge, I'd like to think they'll cut the owner some slack knowing the current climate. Truth to be told, I think all Tesla owners should be cut some slack & left alone.
That would be called masochism.
Lack of charging infrastructure is a legitimate problem for far more than 1% of people. Here in the UK estimates are that around half of people cannot charge at home, so if the charging infrastructure in your area or region is poor, this objectively makes ownership less convenient. I've run cars on 4*/LRP and LPG before, it's not really any different - having to go out of your way to do something so well evolved for the majority of cars is a strong negative to me.
Before you do, try literally any other EV. We have so many that do a lot more, and a lot better, at the same price point (and less).
I've said for yeeeeears that most people use most cars as appliances, and most cars are. Nobody can sit there and with a straight face say that the diesel B- and C- hatches and CUVs dotting 90% of the driveways if you look out of a European house window, driven from home to work to school to supermarket to home are anything but appliances and couldn't be replaced for 90% of their use by an electric car plugged in once a week, saving the bang juice for the cars that make fun noises.
They don't have FSD though. I was kind of wary to begin with, but once you're in a car and let it drive, and it does things that you would have done when you would have done them, like it was reading your mind, then you'll wonder why all cars don't do that. It's kind of a surreal experience, but I haven't had a poor experience yet (like someone's video of a snail-paced collision of a Tesla and another car during an ASS maneuver).
