tesla motors

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:37 pm

Party animal.

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Fri Dec 13, 2024 4:11 pm

I guess now we know why Elon spent $250M to get Trump elected:

Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla

The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.

Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes – more than 1,500 – to federal safety regulators under the program. Tesla has been targeted in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigations, including three stemming from the data.

I will continue to treat Teslas as road hazards as long as FSD is available.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:17 pm

What a ripoff! A new Model S comes with lifetime free supercharging. I replied to their email asking what about existing Model S owners? Fat chance.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:48 pm

Jaymann wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:17 pm What a ripoff! A new Model S comes with lifetime free supercharging. I replied to their email asking what about existing Model S owners? Fat chance.

Welcome to sales incentives.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:44 pm

Zaxxon wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:48 pm
Jaymann wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:17 pm What a ripoff! A new Model S comes with lifetime free supercharging. I replied to their email asking what about existing Model S owners? Fat chance.
Welcome to sales incentives.

Welcome to sales incentives revenue manipulation.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:45 pm

Yeah, Tesla is the only car company to 'manipulate' revenue by *checks notes* tying incentives to buying new vehicles. Good call-out there.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:52 pm

Zaxxon wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:45 pm Yeah, Tesla is the only car company to 'manipulate' revenue by *checks notes* tying incentives to buying new vehicles. Good call-out there.

The others offer rebates, extended warranties, and cash incentives, not lifetime free gas/electric. How is Tesla booking "lifetime" free supercharging?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Dec 17, 2024 1:21 pm

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 2:03 pm

Charted: Tesla’s Market Cap Nears Half of Global Auto Industry

From Wikipedia:

Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.

Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by the number of common shares outstanding

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 2:09 pm

Making about as much sense as their CEO does.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 2:27 pm

We’ve definitely hit ‘offload some TSLA’ season. Fun fact—OG shares were trading over $7k this week accounting for the two splits.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 2:38 pm

Fake it til you make it. Or gain control of a global superpower.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Dec 22, 2024 12:06 pm

Tesla Recalls Cybertruck For The 7th Time Because The TPMS Warning Light Might Not Actually Warn Drivers

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the recall impacts certain 2024 Cybertrucks, 2017-2025 Model 3s and 2020-2025 Model Ys.
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Basically, the issue is that the TPMS warning light on these cars might not stay illuminated between drive cycles. That means it could fail to warn the driver that their car has low tire pressure. That, as you may have guessed, can be dangerous and lead to a crash. Now, 694,304 Teslas are being recalled. Unless you’ve got a Model S or Model X, your car was hit with this issue.
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To Tesla’s credit, it did seem to act rather fast after the issue was discovered.
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In fact, this whole thing happened so quickly that the OTA update has already been rolled out. Impacted customers don’t really need to do anything else, but regardless, they’ll be notified by February 15, 2025. Would it have been better if this recall never had to happen? Sure, but at least Tesla did something right and fixed it quickly.
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For those keeping score at home, this is the seventh Tesla Cybertruck recall of the year. It’s already been hit with recalls for faulty inverters, bad rearview cameras, pedals that get stuck, failing floppy windshield wipers, bed trip that could go flying off and an issue with the font size of certain warning lights.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Dec 23, 2024 9:43 pm

Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It's Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals

Hertz bought a bunch of Tesla Model 3s for its rental fleet and quickly realized that Tesla depreciation would be extra bad at scale. In an aggressive effort to sell off its remaining Tesla inventory, the rental company is sending extra cheap buyout options to rental customers. If you like your rental, Hertz will sell it to you for an extra cheap good deal. One Hertz customer took to Reddit to show off a screenshot of the deal he got directly from Hertz, a 2023 Tesla Model 3 with 30,000 miles on the odometer for $17,913.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:01 pm

An umpteenth example of why I will never trust self driving:

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:06 pm

I do have a friend whose driving I trust less than Tesla auto drive. He sees multiple images, and has to choose which one is his reference. He used to drive a Jeep because it handled better when he misjudged the turn and went up on the curb. More than once.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:28 pm

I know of whom you speak and I have to wonder how in the world he’s able to pass an eye test, which is mandatory for a license, if his vision is that bad.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:34 pm

Speaking of Tesla, we are in Fort Myers FL and today we drove past the Tesla dealer. There are at least fifty Cybertrucks on the lot, no exaggerating.

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:35 am

Jaymann wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:01 pm An umpteenth example of why I will never trust self driving:

Simple explanation
The plane parked the wrong way.
The Tesla saw tjis and wanted to help.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:35 pm

The cybertruck ist kaput.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Sat Jan 18, 2025 7:59 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:58 pm

That thing was a danger to legs.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:19 pm

The true face of Tesla

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

Zhang is not the only one to find herself in the crosshairs of Tesla, which is led by Elon Musk, among the richest men in the world and a self-described “ free speech absolutist.” Over the last four years, Tesla has sued at least six car owners in China who had sudden vehicle malfunctions, quality complaints or accidents they claimed were caused by mechanical failures.

The company has also sued at least six bloggers and two Chinese media outlets that wrote critically about the company, according to a review of public court documents and Chinese media reports by The Associated Press. Tesla won all eleven cases for which AP could determine the verdicts. Two judgments, including Zhang’s, are on appeal. One case was settled out of court.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:45 pm

To me, that's just a company exercising it's rights under the laws of the country they operate in. It's not a good look outside the country, but it's not a shock either.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Feb 12, 2025 4:11 pm

Interesting how the laws in a so-called communist country weigh heavily on the side of capitalist oligarchs.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:17 pm

stessier wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:45 pm To me, that's just a company exercising it's rights under the laws of the country they operate in. It's not a good look outside the country, but it's not a shock either.

Every few weeks, Musk blows off steam by jetting to China and beating a couple of Uyghurs.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Mar 06, 2025 5:04 pm

Dunno if this is propaganda site but

https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-th ... ord-pinto/

TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Mar 06, 2025 5:15 pm

Freedom Fried!

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Thu Mar 06, 2025 5:39 pm

I'm surprised by the number that exist in my neck of the woods. The vast majority have been wrapped, but there is a naked one in my neighborhood 4 houses down. I'm surprised someone in my neighborhood could afford one....although I guess they have to live in my neighborhood if they spent all their money on it.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:41 pm

https://motorillustrated.com/suspicious ... e_vignette

Canadian officials are investigating an unusual spike in Tesla vehicle sales that coincided with the suspension of the federal EV rebate program in January. Over a three-day period, Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles at four locations across the country, resulting in $43 million in government rebates.

One Tesla location in Toronto reported more than 1,200 sales on January 11 alone, accounting for $4 million in rebates. These figures have raised concerns among industry analysts, who question whether the registrations were legitimate or whether Tesla knew about the rebate program’s impending pause.

Go get 'em, Canada. Tesla/Musk are now untouchable in the US.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:02 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:41 pm Go get 'em, Canada. Tesla/Musk are now untouchable in the US.

Doesn't mean more Swasticar sales, though. Stock is in freefall, I read that Muskrat lost over $100B of his own assets so far this year. At this rate, by fall he'll be the beggar you ignore on the street corner.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:05 pm

Jeff V wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:02 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:41 pm Go get 'em, Canada. Tesla/Musk are now untouchable in the US.
Doesn't mean more Swasticar sales, though. Stock is in freefall, I read that Muskrat lost over $100B of his own assets so far this year. At this rate, by fall he'll be the beggar you ignore on the street corner.

Nah, he has a silo into the US Treasury now.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:09 pm

Kraken wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:05 pm Nah, he has a silo into the US Treasury now.

But does he have Trump-level secret service protection? At the rate he's making enemies, especially among the gun-toting MAGAts whose careers he's destroying, it won't be long before someone tries to put a cap in his ass.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:35 pm

Jeff V wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:02 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:41 pm Go get 'em, Canada. Tesla/Musk are now untouchable in the US.
Doesn't mean more Swasticar sales, though.

Of course not. It's a grab for $40M of government funds for cars they couldn't sell.

Jeff V wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:02 pm Stock is in freefall, I read that Muskrat lost over $100B of his own assets so far this year. At this rate, by fall he'll be the beggar you ignore on the street corner.

He lost $100B on paper. He still has a lot of paper and probably at least a few $B in cash. And no US government department or agency will prosecute him or regulate his businesses.

Today's 15% drop in TSLA was sure something though.

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 6:11 pm

Apparently it's illegal to boycott Tesla

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ycott-musk

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 6:30 pm

I can spout made up bullshit, too

Route cancel football eggbeater.

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:39 pm

Is the guardian not a trusted source? When I googled there were multiple hits and I thought the guardian would be safe.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:50 pm

Punisher wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:39 pm Is the guardian not a trusted source? When I googled there were multiple hits and I thought the guardian would be safe.

This is more about Donald Trump saying things that are untrue than the fact that it's a Guardian article.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:53 pm

It's a new aspect to his insanity that's surfaced in the past year or two.

He's the President. He believes that his will should be law, therefore anything he doesn't want can be described as 'illegal.'

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:58 pm

Punisher wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 6:11 pm Apparently it's illegal to boycott Tesla

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ycott-musk

No, it’s not. It’s an opinion by an authoritarian they’re reporting.