Meanwhile, TSLA is up 2% pre market.
Also - one defect means absolutely nothing. They make solid cars, everyone that owns one knows that.
Data seems to disagree with this statement [0]
Tesla is also notorious for glaring QC issues, like missing bits and obvious panel gaps.
[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarsten/2023/02/09/tesla-tank...
The news picks up on the .0001% of problems and those customers are always the loudest (understandably). For ever cracked front casking, there are tens of thousands of solid castings. Austin alone makes 5K Ys per week.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-giga-texas-5000-unit-weekly-....
> If Tesla cars were such POS, they wouldnt be growing 50% Q/o/Q. They have the most popular selling cars in multiple countries (Model Y).
What kind of argument is this? Shake Shack is one of the fastest growing fast food chains, yet they sell crappy, unhealthy food. Xiaomi arguably makes phones that aren't as good as Samsung or Apple, yet they are the fastest growing manufacturer.
See, you lost me there already.
Point is, even if you like it, it is still crappy food. It is just another example of how a product that is objectively bad for its customers, can succeed in the market.
Tesla quality control is quantitatively worse than of more traditional brands like Honda. Finishes in Tesla cars are also quite a bit worse than other cars in the same category.
I’m glad that you are enjoying your Tesla, but reality is what it is.
im not saying that tesla doesnt have some issues with quality control, but most people get nice cars that work fine and look fine. you only hear about the outliers .
I'm pretty confident that Consumer Reports and J.D. Power account for more than just outliers.
Keeping it high is another.
Electrification of human transport is another.
I suspect he wants it all, and having a higher market cap right now is a way to get the other two - TSLA raised a massive amount of capital off of their high valuation.