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BYD becomes best selling EV brand in Australia as Tesla sales plunge in January (thedriven.io)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tesla has lost nearly a quarter of its market cap in the past month. Musk has cost shareholders over $100 billion because he can't shut up about conspiracy theories and "woke" nonsense on the site formerly known as Twitter, so now middle-class car buyers who are overwhelmingly liberal-minded refuse to buy Tesla cars. The Tesla brand has been reduced to rubble and is worth a fraction of what it was a few years ago because Musk refuses to stop pissing on it.

I can't believe he's not facing ten shareholder revolts a day over this. If someone fucks up and costs me a hundred billion dollars I'd be out for fucking blood.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

He made a 6000lb US$60000+ silver Homer car and they're going to miss production goals, I read that based on the P/E ratio the stock price hasn't been realistic for a while.

I hope that people stop preordering them in future and the share price tanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

We just bought a BYD Seal. It's incredibly close to a Tesla 3 and there were pros and cons for both vehicles.... but at the end of the day, the deciding factor for me was having to be associated with Elon Musk. I just couldn't picture myself driving around in a car people associated with the bloke.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Elmo has damaged his brand by going full tilt cocaine addled fascist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The brand has always been weird. I don't really know any people with teslas, but i was always wondering where the garages are to fix and service teslas. The closest thing i have seen is a storefront that has room for one car and a desk. Apparently you can buy or bring your car there and then they bring it wherever. I talked to a few people with teslas and they told me the weirdest stories about their cars and maintenance. One of them is a former car mechanic and he said that he only brought it for maintenance but kept the car for more than a month. Upon closer inpection he found out that they switched out the driveshaft without saying anything. Another guy had a brand new tesla and had needed a new windshield and he had to wait for 6 month going. Everything about tesla feels fishy and scammy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Pretty much any car brand will have stories like that. I've had zero issues with my Model 3 in four years so far. It's a perfectly fine car, but I won't buy another one because of Musk's recent antics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Only an idiot would buy a Tesla, the vehicle is locked down with software and Musk is unpredictable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Chinese car maker BYD has overtaken Tesla

They're both made in China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

With any car brand I like to question the reliability of a brand and its company before I trust them

I suggest others do as well before going in blindly I this brand interests you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are BYD taxis operating for over a decade around the world. Their reliability is not an unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_e6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But what their electronics get up to is. Of course all cars spy on you these days unfortunately but not many of them spy on you for a foreign dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is the big issue for me. It can be as reliable as a Camry all it wants, but if it's a car made in China, I'm going to steer clear purely for the fact that I just don't fucking trust the CCP nor any Chinese company employing tech in foreign countries. I'll keep driving my 2011 Falcon until it dies (and knowing their usual longevity, it'll be a while.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, there is a stop sale on the model 3 in Australia because they didn't give access to the rear middle seat baby seat anchor. Only the left and right seat are accessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that the ISOFIX? Like did they just not put it in the build for the Australian version?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's there, but it's covered. Not sure why they decided to cover it on highland. Costs money to cut the hole, and they reused the same casting so the anchor was already there?