25% of Americans Avoiding Tesla Tech Because of Elon Musk

He is one of the most dangerous people today. Not one penny of my money will go to him willingly from me.

It may be difficult to really say who's part of that group. Years ago, I definitely wanted a Tesla. Would I have been part of that group at that time? Then the downsides started to show up. Poor QA. No independent repairs. Expensive repairs and poor warranty coverage. Their vision of a car controlled by an app. Then Musk went insane.

Then later, when I was in the market for a new car, I didn't seriously consider a Tesla. I looked at them briefly to make sure I wasn't missing out on something big, and found the options to be lackluster. I ended up buying a Bolt.

Would I have bought a Tesla, were it not for Elon's political actions? TBH, probably not. The repairs thing really turned me off. Even though it's largely theoretical (I've yet to find an independent EV mechanic), it's very important that I have the possibility.

At least they also don’t have to put their car into CAR WASH MODE to not brick it getting a clean hahaha

I genuinely don't get when they say "haters are just jealous they can't afford it"... Like, no? Seriously? Do you see them hating on Lamborghinis or Ferraris? It doesn't make any sense.

I still boycott Chic-Fil-Subpar.

I've had it for free a couple times and I cannot understand what the hype is all about. I can go down the street to a mom and pop place and get a way better chicken sandwich for the same price and I don't have to wait in a line wrapping around the block. It's definitely some cult behavior.

But yeah, I have LGBTQ people in my life so I don't need to support an anti-LGBTQ corporation. Unfortunately, most Americans like tasty treats and shiny objects more than morality or accountability.

I'm still among those people. On the rare occasion that I am presented with no option for food other than Chik-Fil-A, I find their food disgusting. I only have two data points - nuggets and hash browns - and both were excessively greasy, bland turds.

My girlfriend's mom gifted her a Hobby Lobby gift card. We regifted it back to her the following year.

I kinda hate that Elon is the issue for 25% of people and not the fact Tesla is using regular cameras instead of LiDAR

Probably at least another 25 percent of people would not consider Tesla products at all due to misinformation from the oil and gas lobby. Then at least 50 percent cannot afford Tesla. Certainly there is overlap between these groups, but still I am pretty sure that Elons political hobby is costly to Tesla. Unfortunately, whatever Tesla may lose in future revenue, he gains back through crypto pump and dump schemes.

That would be me. I don’t shop at either. Neither do my friends or family. Don’t give money to companies that use it to actively persecute you and your friends.

I don't go to Chick Fil A because their chicken is gross and soggy. But I still wouldn't eat there if it was good because the company is gross.

Cybertruck drivers must truly believe that everyone around them is so happy and impressed. As they look in at all other drivers on the road, they all have huge, incredulous smiles on their faces... Of course it's fully because everyone they are seeing is mid laugh when they see the jackass that dropped over $100k on that divorced dad tramp stamp of a car. So people burst out laughing at that rusty death machine that permanently breaks if you take it through the carwash. The owners have trouble reading emotion in faces though, so they must just feel like a million bucks as they arrive home, grab the items they went to pickup at the store (ED meditation and father's day greeting cards they are forging to send to themselves) and the trunk severs their coke pinkie with the long fingernail.

Even if they fired Elon tomorrow I wouldn't buy one for this reason. A few years ago they were the only viable option for an electric car, so people overlooked a lot to get one of them. But now there's a ton of electric cars and even more coming out in the future. Why would I go with a company that's had pretty significant issues over one from a company with more experience building cars?

Even now I'm pretty sure they have one of the best if not the best drivetrains. The problem is everything else is total trash and you won't be able to fix it if anything goes wrong

And yet, our tax dollars enrich him. Isn't that great?

It's really unfortunate that he owns starlink because in rural areas that's basically the only option that works at this point.

Exactly this, I would've bought one eventually if he'd just shut up, a lot of would.

But why would I support an openly racist, fascist, fuckhead trying to buy his way into power? Toyota, Honda, Kia, and all the other corpos are plenty evil and have the manufacturing and support experience an auto maker needs.

The idea of a generic parts "libreauto" is cool. A frame/chassis designed to accept drop-in parts from other established manufacturers so you could part out wrecked cars and assemble them into your own frankencar.

Ioniqs are a really great car. If I didn't live in a country where you can get a BYD Seal super cheaply, I'd have gotten an Ioniq.

I can't even imagine how that he tried to @ the king

Then that is the reason that you are avoiding them. They know you aren't buying. What's important here is the people that can afford a Tesla but are choosing to look elsewhere because of Elon. This includes repeat customers as well.

You can still blacklist Twitter and any lazy ass 'journalists' that make an article based on a Twitter post and hotlink to said post. Many ways to say fuck Elon Musk

Edit: also Reddit. Fuck spez

Edit: also Facebook. Fuck Zuck. Glad he can finally afford to put pubes on his head tho

I avoid teslas because I have a white car and I don't want them to crash into me.

I avoid them because they keep bursting into flames/accelerating out of control.

For me it was him calling rescue workers pedophiles because they didn't want to stop their time sensitive rescue efforts to listen to his fantasies about building and deploying a submarine in a tiny underwater cave system.

I think that was the catalyst for a lot of people to realize who this loser actually was.

It's much better for the environment anyway when you keep it longer. 5y is nothing for an electric car, even if it has multiple hundred thousand kilometers it should be fine.

I would have upgraded

Why though? Anything wrong with your car?

Cars should last like 20 years…

Same, my Model 3 turns 5 years old soon. My original plan was to keep it for at least 8 years until the HV battery warranty expires - but, it has had its first major breakdown in the last 6 months, and although Tesla did manage to fix it I'm now window shopping for a replacement.

I don't think I'll get another Tesla, at least not as the situation stands. If Elon decided to sell it to some unobtrusive billionaire who is content to sit there, shut up and get even richer without meddling in geopolitics - and if they put back the fucking turn signal stalks - then maybe I would consider it, as otherwise the car is easy to live with, pleasant to drive and has acceptable range for what I need - and newer versions will go even further. But, there are a lot of alternatives on the market to consider now as well.

I am sure there is a team of very talented engineers at Tesla, and that they are the reason the company has been as successful as it is, despite the moron in charge of it.

I was looking at an electric car, decided against it because they are way too expensive. But during my research Tesla was completely out of the question for me because I will never support that piece of shit.

I've had one for over 5 years. I'm not buying another car for about 5 years but its not going to be a Tesla.

Plenty. Like, it's only anecdotal but I could buy a Tesla, and am in the market for an EV. A Tesla just isn't even an option to be considered, if for no other reason than how I can't bring myself to give money to the guy.

I'm sure you could sell it and get something cheap and somewhat reliable in its place if you wanted to

What'd you do??

Comma.ai?

Also, only 25%?

Feels like too little too late, huh.

Figured out it won’t drive itself ?

Is Lucid going to remain in business?

I’ve posted this before, but one of my favorite butterfly effect stories is that the famously under-regulating, and ethically dubious Elaine Chao let Tesla implement new driver control methods while she was Transportation Secretary, and a few years later the same sketchy controls helped to kill her sister (in addition to drunk driving).

The sample size for a population of 200 million (people in the US minus children and people over 70) with a confidence of 95% and error margin of 5% is below 400.

Surveying 800 people actually brings the error margin down to 3.5%, which is extremely good in terms of applied statistics.

Hey guys, I found the Tesla fanboy who never took a statistics class.

Yeah I've been pissed off with elon since he turned project redwood into a cash grab.. $37500 is a goddamn ripoff.

And Donald Trump could have invested his inheritance and made more money than god, yet look at them now?

Their solar systems are also like triple the price of anything else.

I’d consider a used Model 3 or Y because you can’t really beat the bang for your buck

Hell no. Not me. Other manufacturers can even charge me a premium for the privilege of not being seen in a Musk vehicle, I'll pay. And if I can't pay, I'll ride the bus. Tesla can fuck right off - new or used.

The problem is that it’s not just his politics but it’s the entire business model. Teslas have decent enough range but they also have doors that you can’t open when they ice over in the winter, they’ll lock the doors if there’s a fire, and they’re generally not built to a very high standard.

Removing Musk from the equation they still aren’t somewhere I’d like my body to be, thanks.

Due to the way the world is developing .... I never did buy new vehicles before, but now I'm convinced, I will never ever buy any new vehicle ... gas or electric.

I'll drive a used dumpy rusted out car or truck until I can't any more.

The richest person in the world, folks. If most will-paid professionals lost 99% of their money, they would essentially be back to zero. If Musk lost 99% of his money, he would still be one of the world’s billionaires.

He would have thousands of millions of dollars.

Before or after the 99% loss, he could finance his daily life with cheap loans wherever needed. There would be no real effect on his personal life, just on how his professional life and big-boy money score affected his ego.

And yet he fucks around with scamming random followers out of their crypto pennies. That’s hire you know he’s sick or sadistic or both.

Please don’t do this. It will have the opposite effect of what you want.

There's cameras everywhere, just so you know.

These slime balls have no shame. Now that he has helped fuck up America he is working on doing the same for the UK and Germany.

He's also attempting to put a robotaxi on the roads that WILL kill people in its current iteration, and he's trying to leverage his political spending to ensure that Tesla isn't liable for his death traps.

He's the worst kind of billionaire.

Pretty sure it’s 26%