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Cyber truck owners seem like the same people that previously were making fun of EVs.

A year after Tesla was started, he invested into it with shitloads of money.

Then he sued Tesla for the “right” to be called a “founder”.

You say that but it's a pretty recent development that there was any significant alternatives to Tesla in the American EV space. Even now that is one of the only options for buying used at a reasonable price. That is finally starting to change but for a lot of people between 2018 and now the choice was between buying another ICE vehicle or a Tesla. I don't blame people for overlooking some of Elon's faults in order to help address climate change, especially since the really crazy side of him wasn't widely publicized until two-ish years ago.

I finally saw one in person and I was a little ashamed to live near someone who made that kind of choice.

When they were first released I saw them being driven everywhere. Now they've disappeared.

The US will just slap enough tariffs to make them roughly the same price as the competition.

I've been seeing more and more of those stickers around the last couple of years. I think this is just the media catching up

IDK about new car figures, but I'm in the market for another EV. I found a Tesla model 3 long range awd that had done about 150k km, and a Renault Zoe with 15k km and 2/3 the range. The Renault is slightly cheaper, but it's Musk being a loose canon that's the reason why I'm going with the Zoe instead. Sure it's a nicer car, if it works, but the fear that Musk get's high and disables non-essential stuff is too real.

So in my case Musk has directly affected my used car choice.

Oh I don't know, the Budweiser stock hit endured pretty lengthy after being advertised by a non-redneck.

EVs were not made to save the environment. They were made to save the auto industry.

He doesn’t deliver on his promises. He didn’t for the people who paid him large amounts for a car, he certainly won’t for the budget minded folk

Fuck Musk, but the model 3 launched at like $35k and was eligible for a sizeable rebate. If you were already looking to buy a similar sized new car in 2019, it was relatively competitive. I don't remember what the rebate amount was, but I'm sure it took at least $5k off.

The issue is that instead of continuing that trend of basically replacing the Honda Civic, he built a fugly, terrible, overpriced truck whose existence could only ever be excused by its concept being a make-a-wish request from a now-dead six year old. Alas, there are no dead six year olds to blame for that monstrosity. We should've had a reliable and affordable EV accessible to nearly every working family in the country. We should've had a whole damn fleet of EV freight trucks, possibly with some autonomous driving, at least across long interstate roads where they would just need to keep pace, stay in lane, and not crash. Instead we got a newer, dumber, more dangerous Hummer.

Again, fuck Musk. He could've been okay, but he chose to be awful instead.