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Tesla’s stock is plummeting. So is the Bay Area’s respect for its vehicles
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People who bought Tesla cars before Elon bought an election should not be harassed.
A vehicle is for the decade, at minimum. Affording a switch is not something that can be assumed. This isn’t the 90s, when regular people turned over a lease, or a purchase, every 3 years, ish.
There’s also a commitment to electric once a charging station is installed at your home.
My last vehicle lasted almost 15yrs.
I disagree about the feasibility, if people wanted to sell their car, they could do it and deal with the discomfort. There's plenty of cheap vehicles out there.
People dont care enough about it to deal with the discomfort. I would say that there is presumably a threshold of bad shit muskrat could do, beyond which most people would be so disgusted that they would sell their vehicle for a loss and spend that on a "lesser" vehicle.
Even if its a gas powered used minivan or it means a car note for another 6 years, they'll find a way if they care enough.
I think its not that it isn't feasible, it's that they are not past the threshold where they dont want to be seen giving money to an awful persons business. Theyre still at the point where driving an EV because they just paid to have a charger installed is more important to them.
And that is fine, it makes sense. But I do not see it as a forced hand like youre describing and I personally dont think its a good enough excuse.
So in practical terms, for anyone interested, anyone driving a Cyber Truck, or a Model Y or Model 3 refresh are fair game. Put simply, if the headlight goes all the way across the front, let 'er rip. If it has regular looking headlights, hold your tongue.
In practical terms if it has a T logo, its manufactured by a company owned by a man who is actively trying to undermine democracy in the US and abroad. The guy that did the salute.
Why bother investigating the headlights? You just need the emblem.
See above about people who bought before he started undermining democracy
I disagree with the sentiment that they are forced to keep owning one, I wrote out why in a response above. Tldr in my opinion they dont care enough to deal with the discomfort of changing vehicles
Nah people who can afford a 80,000 usd car can afford to get rid of it too. It's a high end luxury item not some critical tool you can't live without.
I have a MY and no you are wrong. I have a good paying job too and it was 47k not 80k. I don't like what Elon is doing, but I can't just replace my car bcz Elon is a fucking twat.
47k is still a luxury car my dude.
Just because someone has a higher paycheck and a slightly nicer car doesn’t mean they have made it beyond living a paycheck to paycheck grind. Most of these people are living in a slightly more expensive neighborhood that eats up a lot of those slightly higher wages and they still have to budget for major purchases like a new car. Tesla owners aren’t a bunch of hedge fund managers living in mansions behind gates, separate from the rest of us. I don’t have a Tesla myself, but I live in a boring suburban neighborhood full of Teslas.
47k is still a luxury car my dude.
Its on a list of 10 cheapest luxury cars you can buy in 2025, along with mercedes and BMWs.
While that motortrend list is not an authority I think it echos a common sentiment regular people in america have, which is that 45k is a lot for a car.
Nope. Protesting is meant to be disruptive. Making tesla owners uncomfortable is the only way to take elon down.
Crazy take. You dont have agency to address real issues (money in politics, correctly taxing gains, lack of good leadership and social infrastructure) so lets lash out at other wage earners who have more in common with you.
Does that apply to strikes too? 'Crazy take. You don't have agency to address real issues (setting wages) so let's lash out at other wage earners (customers) who have more in common with you.
You think Elon gives a fuck about Tesla owners? He is swimming tax payer dollars for his other ventures. Military and space $$ dwarf car sales. He doesn't give two shits about Tesla and knows other companies are going to take away most of his market share.
That's why all the new shit promised is not happening. It's not being funded.
He borrows against Tesla all the time, it would at least inconvenience him to not have convenient collateral for huge loans.
If resale value tanks because nobody wants to drive the car, musk gets deposed
Resale is irrelevant. First sale, new, is Al that affects Elon.
Do the public art, like the 0 to 1939 ads in London. It’s part of the landscape, vandalizes nothing, and is highly visible messaging.
Ads work or they wouldn’t be on display. Use the same type of playbook with public art in this vein
If the used market is saturated, nobody will buy new ones.
Resale $$ do not impact Musk. He has already picking the bones oft Tesla. Harassing people who are stuck with one doesn't affect Musk at all. In fact it helps him because he can play the martyr and get people who are harassed hating on "the lefties".