The board needs to boot Musk. A non zero amount of this sales decline has to be tied to his antics. Too many of us have heard people say “I probably would’ve bought a Tesla, but I don’t want to support Musk.”
I’d say that the bulk of the sales decline are primarily rooted in the fact that the competition has outdone Tesla on pricing and quality. Way too many stories of Tesla cars dying from a simple rainy day or driving through puddles and then the company fucking the customers over by not covering those incidents under the warranty with bullshit excuses.
Maybe 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.
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.
The board needs to boot Musk. A non zero amount of this sales decline has to be tied to his antics. Too many of us have heard people say “I probably would’ve bought a Tesla, but I don’t want to support Musk.”
Yup. I’ll probably go electric for my next ride. I’ll be fucked if i even consider tsla.
I’d say that the bulk of the sales decline are primarily rooted in the fact that the competition has outdone Tesla on pricing and quality. Way too many stories of Tesla cars dying from a simple rainy day or driving through puddles and then the company fucking the customers over by not covering those incidents under the warranty with bullshit excuses.
Maybe 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:
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.
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.
Elon or not the design philosophy of teslas have always been a joke.
I stay away from teslas because they are a genuinely shitty car with stupid design choices.
Elon could drop dead tomorrow and Tesla will still be a company I stay far far away from.