Early car sales data for January is starting to arrive from countries across the pond, and they paint an alarming picture for Tesla. Sales are crashing in France, Germany, and the UK—all affluent countries that are key markets for Tesla’s electric vehicles. Coming on the heels of a large financial miss, it’s just one more problem for the automaker.
The people who support Nazis are not the same people who buy Teslas in Europe. I’ve seen on reddit (ie may be fake don’t rely on it) that one person had put a " I bought it before we knew he was a Nazi" sticker on their tesla.
There a four Teslas in my buildings underground parking garage here in Germany. One of them my own.
3 of the 4 of them have that sticker. Also, one of them my own.
The one that didn’t, did have it, until he needed some service done, and when the car came back, the sticker was gone. So, I don’t know if he removed it to avoid any issues, or if that was a “service” that Tesla provided.
I placed the order in 2021, so truly we didn’t know. It was back when Germany had the €9,000 subsidy and it made sense.
It’s sad what he’s done, because I love the car, but hate what he’s done. But I’m not at a point where I can just get rid of it because he lost his marbles.
Horseshit. By 2021, it was already known that he was human garbage.
When would you say was the point where it became really obvious that musk was an extremely bad person? Because for a while there he had a great pr team and was widely regarded as ‘the eccentric maverick shaking up the EV industry’. Any watershed you’d point to?
He called a thai cave diver a pedophile in 2018, which pretty much started the complete crumbling of his image as … well, not a complete asshole.
Fighting the union at Tesla was a big one for me. But you’re right, he did have great pr early on.
Sounds like backup stickers are an important consumable you need to own with the Nazi car.
The ‘swasticar’