Electric Vehicles

Count me among the boycotters. Musk has made it all but certain I'll never ever buy any product or service he benefits from if I can avoid it.

Also...

Musk’s highly abnormal involvement in ~~US~~ world politics

There. FTFY.

A family member had a deposit down on a Cybertruck and was ready to buy one. They canceled their deposit and bought a different EV because of how much they despise Elon now, so it's not just sour grapes from people that couldn't/wouldn't buy one anyways.

Sad that it's only 25%.

I can’t think of anything else as significant in consumer product sales.

Some people may still be boycotting Chick Fil A and Hobby Lobby. Though I doubt if it's 25%.

If you are not self aware enough to be embarrassed that you are driving a cybertruck do not worry, everyone who sees you driving it is embarrassed for you.

I can't boycott Tesla because of Musk because their reputation for poor build quality and horrific servicing means I wouldn't even consider them to begin with. That and I want my control stalks.

They’re also not good cars. There’s no reason to buy a new one in 2025

Those are rookie numbers - you gotta pump those numbers up

I'm more deterred by the amount of control that Tesla retains over their vehicles after they've "sold" it. But if that wasn't enough, Musk's descent in oligarchic fascism certainly would be.

Musk is clearly bad for the companies he heads. I'm eagerly awaiting the investor lawsuits. The stocks will probably have to dip first, though.

I have yet to purchase a single product made by the racist loser and I will continue to do so.

My favorite are the bumper stickers that say "I bought this before I knew what he was like". Seen 3 or 4 now.

It's sad because behind this shitstain of a human being there are a bunch of actually intelligent people making electric cars and rockets who are having their intellect and effort overshadowed by an insufferable man-child.

It’s not just their vehicles. I just bought a ‘24 Ioniq 5, and Hyundai is set to start sending out free adapters to use Tesla Superchargers, but I probably won’t plug into one of those either, because it benefits that moronic man-child oligarch.

That’s a full quarter of the US public that won’t consider great electric vehicles

This is subjective.

including the best selling vehicle in the world

This is distorted by the fact that they have fewer than half a dozen models. They aren't even in the top 10 brands world wide. BYD is in the top 10 and they sell twice as many vehicles.

Tesla isn't growing and as the foul Musk spread through global politics the brand will fall more. He wasted his first mover advantage. It's just a waiting game on how long the market will remain irrational with the stock price.

Opinions of him are negative here in the UK as well. In April 2022, 40% of Brits had an unfavourable opinion of him. By August 2024, that had risen to 64%.

Right. Because that's the ONLY reason we aren't buying Tesla shit. It has nothing to do with the cost of everything sky rocketing.

75% of americans are selfish assholes.

I boycotted his crap before he got involved in politics. He’s always been an idiot.

You avoid Teslas because of Elon Musk. I avoid Teslas because of security, privacy, and proprietary tech concerns.

We are not the same.

/j

I own a 5yo Tesla. I would have upgraded, except for the fact that giving more money to Musk is horrific.

How many of those are the target demographic for Tesla?

I would not buy a Tesla because of musk, but also because I don't have the need for a car or the income for one.

Does this 25% fall inside the venn diagram of people who can afford / would otherwise be buying Tesla products?

It's not like we are talking about pancake mix, it's $50k+ cars, with the biggest offenders (e.g. cyber truck) being 100k

I legitimately used to want a Tesla car, long long ago.

Yeah at this point I'd rather get rid of my Tesla, but unfortunately I'm not rich enough to just willy nilly change cars because I don't like the owner of its manufacturer.

Car manufacturers are a weird bunch. Like take Henry Ford for example, total nazi sympathizer. Or Volkwagen, from none other than Mr. Hitler himself.

The best way to fight the oligarchy is to stop paying them.

great electric vehicles

I mean, there's also the fact that his cars are expensive, and shit.

Open source self driving tech is out there and works in cars from toyota, honda and many other domestic and foreign manufacturers.

Tesla is shit.

I would imagine this number is actually higher.

lol, now ?

The rest avoid it because they're shit cars

Planning to sell my model 3 as soon as I get my hands on either an Aptera or a Telo. Or if I win the lottery and get a Lucid.