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[–] kreynen@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 14 hours ago

@juergen@feddit.org "Fuck Elon" is becoming the punch buggy of this generation.

Combine a toxic brand with a level of ridiculously poor Quality Control we haven't seen from a US automaker since the Saturn brand, and you get a price point/distressd asset that PE will be looking at. They've already calculated the value of selling Tesla for parts and just waiting for the stock to hit a number to act. Elon is so over leveraged, there will be nothing he can do to stop it.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 35 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Ill give you $200 for the battery, the motor, and some chonky relays if you scrape the branding off.

[–] Clearwater@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I was joking with some friends about doing exactly this. Schuck it down to just the battery and minimal drivetrain, and make a very heavy go-kart.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Hopefully a better car.

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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago (20 children)

Honestly? Might not be a bad idea to consider buying a used Tesla after they tank in value.

  1. No money goes to Elon in that exchange, so you're not supporting the fascist prick. They made their money off the first buyer.

  2. It's environmentally friendly to buy a used vehicle, rather than a new one, as you extend it's life and reduce it's carbon footprint

  3. Since everybody is abandoning them, they're cheaper than other options.

My only reservation is that I'd be driving around a Tesla still, so if I did something like this I'd have to de-brand the hell out of it somehow to make it appear as a generic "an car".

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 17 hours ago

No money goes to Elon directly, but it still increases the market price of Teslas. So someone else deciding between used and new might just buy new because it doesn't cost much extra.

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[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 232 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Who knew that being a publicly facing cunt makes people not want to buy your product. Shocking discovery.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 97 points 22 hours ago (12 children)

These people literally live in reaffirming social bubbles they have created. On and offline both. They don't see that they are overplaying their hand.

This article should bring you joy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/

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[–] cocolowlander@feddit.nl 116 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump. On Monday, the president took to the South Lawn of the White House to promote Tesla's cars, apparently buying one despite having campaigned on an explicitly anti-electric vehicle platform.

Somehow, I don't think MAGA cult will buy electric vehicles in quantities needed to offset even a fraction of people who used to buy Tesla.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 0 points 6 hours ago

I think that's what the Cybertruck is for, to appeal to Conservatives. I live on the edge between blue and red counties, and down in red territory the Cybertrucks are everywhere. (Meaning I saw at least four different ones.)

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 42 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

A portion also associate EVs and their ilk with environmentalists, and would probably not buy one even if their very lives depended on it.

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 63 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The difference is Biden is a gun owner. So at least it would be buying a product he actually has. There has been incidents referencing him and his wife having at least a shotgun (so 2+ guns)

With Trump hating on electric cars like he had for so long, and not knowing how to drive, it's a bit different.

everything’s computer

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Old rich guy like Biden probably has loads of nice, quality, antique guns.

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[–] dick_fineman@discuss.online 27 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that's lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It'll get 50 miles per-charge, but it'll intimidate their neighbor's kid, so it's worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

[–] OnASnowyEvening@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

The GMC Hummer EV Pickup Truck has entered the chat.

205-kWh capacity battery [three times the size in a crossover], still gets only 275 miles [2023 version].

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 17 hours ago

That truck weighs a whopping 10,000 lbs though.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 47 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Sure am glad I couldn’t afford one of those things back when I wanted one.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 33 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Right? Who knew that making a product that half of the population wants to buy and then making your brand based around the exact half of the population that lives in contempt of this product instead was a bad idea?

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 18 points 18 hours ago

1/3. These cretins are a loud, fascist minority.

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 99 points 22 hours ago

Same people proudly claiming the market is self regulating shocked when the market responds to them being openly fascist cunts.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 62 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump.

Yeah, that's part of the problem, Elon.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

Elon out here thinking Twitter bots are real people. Too much ketamine.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 77 points 23 hours ago (6 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

whos buying used teslas? its like asking for trouble consider thier defectiveness.

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

Speaking from personal experience, most likely immigrants who don't know much about us politics and still watch news and shows from their home country or in their own language.

Growing up, even though I was born in the USA, I'd only listen to what my parents heard (until I was a teen), watched what they watched (Univision, etc), are mostly Salvadorian food at home.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

At this point I expect to see them abandoned on the side of the road with a "Just take it" sign over the engine

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
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