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Tesla's Favorability with Liberals/Democrats Dropped from 39% to 16% in 6 Months — Also Dropped among Conservatives/Republicans - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/evs@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/16752258

At this rate, he's gonna crash the whole company.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And that's the thing nilloc is missing. It was never about how many trucks and Roadsters were delivered, it was about mindshare and cool factor.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Roadsters/sports cars are always about brand prestige, but that doesn’t necessarily help the bottom line, most often it the pet project of an auto exec. VW lost money on every Veyron it sold.

The cyber truck is an even dumber pet project, and really shouldn’t be legal as US such a danger to bystanders. It’s stubborn design is also much more expensive to produce, especially to achieve an acceptable fit and finish.

I was replying to a comment that was prescribing a post to financial success for Tesla.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why shouldn't the design be legal?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you seen the guy who was inspecting his new truck and sliced his wrist open in the exposed edge by the tail light?

Also the leading edge of the truck is absolutely a pedestrian murdering device.

Most modern trucks are also terrible and need to have pedestrian safety rules applied to them, but at least they aren’t made with “bullet proof” sheets of stainless steel with literally knife sharp leading and trailing edges.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry, we were having a language problem. You're using American truck and I'm using British truck, so we're talking about two totally different things.

Your truck is the pickup, mine is the long-haul thing. 😂

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aahhh, that makes sense.

There are still some major problems with the Semi trucks too though, but purely thermodynamically.

Probably going to take overhead charging on shorter routes to work. The Mid-west US is going to take swappable batteries or a huge leap in charging and capacity.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 weeks ago

Happened to see this the other day, it would suggest that charging is more normal then we anticipate

https://electrek.co/2024/08/21/tesla-deploys-rare-mobile-megacharger-electric-trucks-utah/