Who gives a shit? Fuck Tesla, fuck Ellen Musk.
Hi, I'm Lone Skum and totally not Elon Musk with a moustache !
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
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.
It really shows how good traditional vehicle manufacturers actually are and the whole worth of Tesla is basically a meme stock. Toyota, Mazda etc are still making cars that run almost new 10 years later.
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
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.
Do you know the saying, the revolution devours all its children.
The electric car revolution is over. Tesla is over.
The electric car revolution is over.
Ah yes, I forgot that the USA is the only country in the world, my mistake.
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
I hope they're not lying with the denial. If he stays, it'll drive left wingers to other options, increasing competition. And it might even drive right wingers to start buying EVs in quantity. 😁
I saw a tree with s few broken branches. Yeah a Christmas tree from last year. Could it run for CEO? I asked if he could please insult a minority group and it said nothing. I asked if he could share secrets and also nothing. It is perfect for the job! It used to be green and it would appreciate some green $$ just like a CEO.
I, the MuskyMelon, officially announce my candidacy for CEO of Tesla!!!
I'd vote for you if I could! Tesla could be alright without Musk, but it's a long, uphill drive from where they're at now.
https://www.ft.com/content/60c778d4-9e1a-41e0-a1f4-8e0ba797954b
So a few possibilities.
None of those are mutually exclusive.
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.
Still less of a nazi.
Her neurotoxin doesn't discriminate
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.
does it matter? he stacked the board with his corporate yes men.
I've been expecting this for a good while.
Rule #1 Never believe his announcements. They may be true or not.
Rule #2 Always assume that most people believe in him and his announcements.
Rule #3 After applying the rules #1 and #2, sometimes you can see what he is trying to achieve with the announcement itself.
Most times it is about inflating his ego. Often it is about pushing (manipulating) the stock market.
So when he recently announced to "be allocating far more of my time to Tesla.” I immediately thought the hell you want to donate them your oh so precious time, again, suddenly (there would even be admitting a fault in it if he actually did), no you just want the stocks to stay up. And so I concluded that he doesn't feel like taking responsibility at Tesla anymore.
I agree. And there is also a situation like this, where even if the claim is truthful, It doesn't actually change anything. He could shift from being the CEO to being the number one advisor to the company, and given his ownership, it would still be the same in effect.
Next weeks news: Tesla board members all die in tragic autodrive mishaps.
All have their X accounts barred for promoting hate.
This won't actually work, but you can't blame them for considering it.
Paywall
Fucking finally
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