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Yes, that he has a cult following excusing everything he does.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now
Todays 39k cough 40k if you don’t want black, is viable due to battery prices falling dramatically over the 6 years since they started selling the car not them actually hitting the stated goal.
The model 3 is still the 7th most sold car in 2022.
Is a car company not allowed to raise prices? Like what standard are you holding tesla to? If they can sell a tesla for $42k, why sell it for $35k? Because Elon said so in 2015? That's ridiculous, its just not how markets or companies work. And they DID sell it for $35,000, for a while. So Elon didn't even lie.
Absolutely ridiculous the mental gymnastics some people will go to to hate the guy. Insane.
Of course they can raise prices, but they can also lie about what price the car will be sold at in the future.
I later bought one for more than 35k.
There are no mental gymnastics. Musk said I could buy one at a specific price. Tesla would not sell it to me at that price.
What is that supposed to mean? Everything at any price point can be affordable for the right market segment.
Yes I'm sure they are under producing, just to have a waiting list...
I mean come on, you are arguing in such bad faith its insane. This is 20 year old car company that's producing the 4th best selling car int he world. It's insane. But sure, Elon is a liar and purposefully under produces... sigh.
I don't even hate the guy by the way. It's difficult to read balanced takes on him since he is such a polarizing figure, especially after he bought Twitter, and that got a lot of people's knickers in a bunch.
But let's call a liar when we see one, shall we? It is healthier than being a sycophant for asshole billionaires.
Ok, so please provide the exact time you consider it a "lie" and not a "prediction"
> The fact is that those were not predictions, those were lies aimed at pumping up the stock price of his company,
He's won every single lawsuit about this so far, but feel free to sue him if you think this is what he did. With the level of scrutiny tesla is under, and the level of shortselling going on previously, if there was any of this going on there would have been massive class action lawsuits.
You are repeating anti Elon talking points, without actual facts. But feel free to source the exact things you mention.
Getting predictions wrong are not lies. Especially for an extremely ambitious entrepreneur in very tough markets. If it were, 99% of silicon valley would be in jail, or fired, or whatever.
Why would I? I was never invested in any companies he is involved in. His lies never damaged my investments.
I also don't buy any products made by his companies. You see, I take great care in not falling for grifters.
And I have little interest in getting into a back and forth with someone white knighting for Elon. As I said, I don't even hate the guy, and let's be frank, you are not willing to let go any of your positions anyway. All his lies are well documented and easy to look up, but you will just hand wave them away, so let's cut this short.
> 99% of silicon valley would be in jail
Agreed. But rich assholes tend to get the powers that be on their side.