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Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Makes sense given that they're now pivoting from automobile company to artificial intelligence, which is a bubble and on top of that, they've just given the CEO a 50 billion pay packet. They'll stabilize in a week or so.

[–] Cikos 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

being the first does not guarantee success, people were saying that unless tesla fix their QC problem, legacy carmakers will overtake them. guess they're not fast enough or even care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

There’s a real value in knowing how the other parts of a car go together. There’s a value in having a QA team in place that only needs to adjust to a different power plant rather than learn how to QA for a completely different product.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hate to point this out because fuck Elon but it looks like despite sales falling drastically, they still sold over 6 times more than their next competitor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure where the "failing harder than the rest of the market is succeeding" comes from either. At least based on volume of sales from the table, the sum of the changes between 2023 and 2024 (27,261 excluding Tesla) is bigger than Tesla's change (-21,443). But I haven't proper done math in a while, if anyone could correct me that'd be a great refresher.

[–] BradleyUffner 6 points 6 months ago

Almost like giving Baby Musk a 50 billion dollar binky was a really stupid business decision.

[–] Marthirial 6 points 6 months ago

Until Tesla is no longer controlled by the major nepo baby in history, it will continue to be a fad and meme car without future.