Regardless of whether or not you agree with him, Elon has really offered everyone a masterclass in alienating your own customer base.
And that's just the movies, the comics went way deeper.
Terrible take this time, I'm afraid.
Elon is literally the It-needs-to-be-pointy guy.
>According to Fergus, the character was inspired by an amalgam of real people — but none so much as Elon Musk. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/tony-stark-elon-musk...
I guess fiction is often cooler than reality.
I was rather hoping that this would at least attract the (stereotypically not interested in the environment) republicans, but apparently not.
Hilarious every way I turn it. The consequences of global warming are ever more clear, but for the time being cooler cars prevail. I’m not trying to moralize here, just pointing out that the reasoning here is very funny. If I ever catch you recycling plastic I’ll be sure it’s only because it involves cool technology.
People on twitter told Elon he was nuts the very first time he started toying with conservative ideas. Just jam that whole hand in your mouth and bite the wrist that feeds you. Great idea bud. He’s a fucking idiot for having not listened. Which any of his dozen children also could have told you.
Perhaps; certainly he would benefit from an anti-sycophant to tell him "no" and that he will listen to.
The article on the other hand is about that exact inversion happening in (parts of) Hollywood, showing that they care more about Elon's tweets than the environment. This indicates they care more about culture wars than science and technology.
the people in the article likely care more about elon's tweets and the environment than they do about buying tesla cars. i suspect they will prefer other electric vehicles.
Should Trump win, arguably Musk is helping him to win by providing a free speech platform, Trump is more likely to tariff Chinese competition.
There are some that are Tesla competitors, but it is widely believed (there is not enough evidence to show conclusively) that none of the Chinese manufacturers make money on selling EVs.
The situation is similar to that of Rivian or VW. The Rivian is a spectacular car but it is expensive to make that Rivian loses 10s of thousands everytime they sell a car. VW is also losing money on every EV they sell. If you buy one you're getting a good deal, but edging the company closer to bankruptcy at the same time. Buy the car avoid the stock.
BYD refuses to give financials on their pure EV profit numbers. They sell a ton of hybrids and ICE cars and eek out a very small profit. Anyone who pays attention to the space must ask themselves why they don't boast about their pure EV margins? It's likely because they are losing money.
Tesla on the other hand has positive gross margins on their cars and have since the day they started selling the Model S. That is the reason why the stock value is so high, because Tesla is the most efficient EV maker on earth by a significant margin. They can lower prices further than any competition and remain profitable.
Same for the Cybertruck
Here's a Nio covering 891.4 km (554 miles) on a single charge with its 150 kWh battery pack:
https://insideevs.com/news/732567/nio-chinese-ev-range-test/
Here's a Nio doing a battery swap in 6 minutes:
outside of China, yes, they're probably a rare sight. in Chinese cities however, from what I saw, a double digit percentage of cars are their EVs - which is a lot of cars in a country with 1.5 billion people.
don't take my word for it, there are probably plenty of videos on youtube that show and discuss Chinese city roads.
Given their price and performance, I think we'll be seeing more of them in the future. The two downsides (that I was told of) are build quality (at the same level as tesla) and obsession with large screens (same as tesla).
Somewhat impeded by weak dealer networks, and dubious marketing (for a couple of years, ORA was trying to sell something called a Funky Cat, though they’ve recently rebranded it as something more boring) but they’re a thing.