cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43304669
If they somehow manage to make Musk sell his shares, Tesla might become a viable company again.
Until then: I don’t care.
Idk, even before Musk went full meth head things were already heading south pretty fast - they’d completely squandered their first mover advantage and their “move fast and break things” approach was really starting to take a toll on their brand reputation. Teslas were already starting to be known as expensive cars with terrible build quality, then the constant delays and broken promises about self driving did them no favors either.
A Tesla made sense when they were pretty much the only really viable luxury EV, but when you can get equivalent cars (with better build quality) from established Western manufacturers for ~75% the price or from a Chinese manufacturer for ~60%, what advantage do they have?
Musk’s cult of personally is/was a big part of it, so they are kinda screwed either way - the stink of Musk won’t instantly vanish if they get rid of him, and taints everything while he stays
Yeah I think they would have had to slow down or stop sales and make a big deal about reworking their production lines for better QC. Then come back a year or two later with actual improvements. I think Tesla probably have enough brand recognition that they can survive without Musk so hopefully they kick him out.
I think the US car industry as a whole is due for a major price adjustment, so I kind of see that as it’s own issue. Car prices need to be cut at least in half to make them practical as utility items. We’re being asked to drive vehicles that costs as much as a house did 30 years ago, and are approaching the same size, on the highway and leave them parked inches from each other.
The magic of Tesla was that they’re constantly iterating on the same model. The first 1000 teslas and the last 1000 teslas have nothing in common, not a single part. I don’t know how it is now, I stopped caring when Elongated started to show his true colours, but before that Tesla’s model actually had merit and gave them huge advantage.
The initial cars were the worst (cyber truck excluded) and they had hardware store bodge jobs and overly complex mechanisms. But by the Model 3 they had revised a lot of the problems away, especially on the Model S.
They were still never built like a Mercedes (or even a VW), but they had improved a lot of the early issues. Then Musk got even nuts-er
Do you know the saying, the revolution devours all its children.
The electric car revolution is over. Tesla is over.
Huh? EVs are more popular than they have ever been, and most of the developed world is edging ever closer to ICE bans for newly sold cars (most are 2035).
Why are you being so ideological about the fuel type people’s cars use?
https://www.ft.com/content/60c778d4-9e1a-41e0-a1f4-8e0ba797954b
Tesla board denies launching search for Musk’s successor
So a few possibilities.
- The board started looking and are lying about looking once it leaked.
- A member of the board started and that leaked, possibly on purpose.
- Someone leaked that they started looking just to gauge what the response would be from shareholders and the general public.
If and when that cunt leaves you people need to continue the Tesla boycott. The message should be that association with Elon is damaging long term to a company. And not that Elon will bring publicity and notoriety to your company which can be turned into sales and increased market shares long after he’s left. Because that’s how these idiots think. They’ll happily accept short term loss if they think the bounce back after he’s gone will net them even more.
His brand is toxicity so don’t support any company that works with him. Ever. Treat him like a rapist. Actually maybe that’s a bad idea… if you treat him like a rapist the US will probably elect him their next president 💀🇺🇲.
How about a potato? On the minus side, it doesn’t do anything, but it has the advantage of not being an utter piece of shit that does nazi salutes.
Reinstate Eberhard and Tarpenning.
You know, the actual founders, who got forced out after the fascist Afrikaner failson pulled the same corpo tissy tantrum bullshit he did at Paypal?
All Musk did was follow the general strategic plan for the company that Eberhard and Tarpenning had laid out.
Then, when that outline was run out, and Elon had to actually think of something else, it all became a total shitshow, quite rapidly.
This has been directly refuted by the Tesla board, who even told the reporters that it wasn’t true when they were asked before the article was published……then they published it anyway and didn’t include the boards comments lol
When Tesla wins a civil suit about this story, then I’ll believe they’re not lying.
