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[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago

Nobody wants to buy a swasticar, so I predict it will soon be illegal in the US to buy an EV from any other company than Tesla. Because free speech absolutism or something, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know I'm showing my age here, but Incel Camino is brilliant.

[–] disguy_ovahea 118 points 1 day ago (3 children)

$TSLA is down 41% in 3 months🤭

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's still +26% in 6 months, +58% in a year and +535% in 5 years. There's still a long way to go down unfortunately.

[–] disguy_ovahea 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Not with their P/E ratio at 273.22 🤣

The average P/E for the auto industry is 29.97. $TSLA is beyond overvalued. If it stays like this, it’ll take another massive hit after the Q1 earnings call on April 29th.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

The funny bit is that if their stock price falls 90% in 6 months, their P/E will almost certainly still be above the auto industry average because their earnings will be falling too.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

Long may it continue

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

When does it affect the Twitter loans?

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

That's would be interesting to know. He bought Twitter on October 27th 2022 when TSLA was around 225 (having fallen from above 330 when he first announced he was going to buy), and it's now at 272, so he's got about 17% left before it drops to the same value. Presumably the loan was for less than the full value of his TSLA holding, so he's still got some margin left, but I can easily believe the banks will be wanting extra collateral pretty soon considering it's down 30% in the last month alone.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He'll put the USA up as collateral. That'll give him an extra dollar or two

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Cant he just transfer cash out of the US Treasury?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

He is in a good position to cause hyper-inflation in the US in case he needs a few extra quintillion dollars.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He'll put the USA up as collateral

I think he might have already sold that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Llm: *“Okay, so you think the United States is just a country, right? With laws, a government, and people who vote? No. The United States is actually a massive, over-leveraged brand, built on a combination of nostalgia, marketing, and a complicated system of political derivatives that nobody really understands. And just like the financial system in 2008, it's being held together by confidence.

Now, let’s say the USA starts running into problems—declining trust, political instability, social fragmentation. Normally, in a functioning system, you'd fix these things. But instead of actual reform, what if we just repackaged the entire thing and sold it as something new?

So we take all these existing structures—government, media, economy—and bundle them into what we’ll call ‘America 2.0.’ It’s the same thing, but we slap on a fresh narrative: ‘Innovation!’ ‘Resilience!’ ‘Democracy!’ Boom. People feel reassured. But underneath? It’s still the same risky assets, just rebranded and resold.

The best part? If it fails, the people who repackaged it already made their money. And the rest? Well… the system’s ‘too big to fail,’ right?”*

[–] taiyang 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

0% in this economy? Interest rates are still up, it's been hard to find any 0%s after rate hikes, they really are desperate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much every major EV brand in the US is selling at 0% financing right now. GM, KIA, Ford, Nissan, Tesla, VW etc etc. its a great time to buy.

[–] taiyang 1 points 4 hours ago

Really? I nearly gave up a few months ago, especially since rebate was pretty limited when I checked. I might still hold off though, I'm still worried about... well, everything, right now.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

swasticar 😊

wouldn't it be so funny if musk died in a cybertruck fire and the doors locked him in :p :3

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

This just in: DOGE deems tesla a nation security asset, too big to fail, and bails out the company.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

Go fash, get bashed

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Nazimobile is acceptable, but I prefer swasticar.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would like to have an ev, but I don't want to buy from a Nazi

[–] Bytemeister 2 points 17 hours ago

I just snagged a Mach-E GT (still arguably a Nazi car though) my co-worker has a Kia EV, and it seems pretty good. The Nissan Leaf is decent too.

Fair warning, range anxiety is real, but I've pretty much gotten over it at this point. I charge my car to 180mile of range, and I rarely get down lower than 130 in a week, so an EV with 120 miles of range would be sufficient, especially if you have a partner with an ICE or hybrid.

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

There are loads of viable alternatives these days with both legacy auto manufacturers closing the gap and a raft of new EV manufacturers joining the market, mostly from China.

I sold my Model 3 last month and took delivery of a new Polestar 2. The only features that I've lost in the switch are the built in dashcam (had to install my own instead) and using my phone as a key (which is supposed to be fixed in the next software update). Other than that, the feature set and specification of the two cars is pretty similar. Except my new one has twice the battery capacity.

[–] DarkShaggy 5 points 1 day ago

Plenty of other good options. About to grab a used BMW i4 to replace my Model y perf.

[–] then_three_more 1 points 1 day ago

Can you get polestar in the US?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Their newest car is the model SS