I can't imagine people not buying used car because the owner of the company said something. Especially if the car is top high innovation in EV
Tesla, well reputation is trash. Company success is questionable.
I’d rather by an EV from anyone right now than Tesla.
I really have trouble cancelling something just because some guy is doing some things. There were gazillion of people working on it and I have feeling that I would cancel them too, but they are innocent really
Tesla according to them is a great used car to buy. Not all models however.
> Based on our experience and that of our colleagues’ labs at 15-20 different locations worldwide, we have concluded that the battery is the last concern on the list during the first 10 years of an EV’s life, with some vehicles covering a large number of miles with the original battery system. The most common failures within 10 years of using an EV are: 1. Electric motors, 2. OBC chargers, 3. DCDC/inverters, and only in fourth place, batteries.
All EVs depreciate quickly, Tesla isn’t unique in this regard.
The reason is simply that the market is currently higher income earning early adopters. That customer base is willing to pay the premium for the newest model, and upgrades quickly when newer models come out.
This results in a large of supply of 3 year old vehicles, but not much demand.
In time we’ll see used EVs depreciate at rates more similar to ICE vehicles, as mainstream buyers, who view EVs as a car rather than a tech product, enter the market.
I'm not sure this has a basis in reality. There is no supporting evidence for it.
On the contrary, there is evidence that both Musk's favorability rating[1] and Tesla's brand reputation[2][3] have nosedived over the last few years and especially after Jan 2025.
If you want to claim an income-value-market cause, you'll have to provide more compelling evidence.
1. https://www.natesilver.net/p/elon-musk-polls-popularity-nate...
2. https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-favorabilty-america-us...
3. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/tesla-s-tumbling-brand-repu...
Maybe you missed it, but there was a whole period in the Spring when people were in the real world protesting in front of actual Tesla dealerships. These were people like my parents, who don't even have social media, yet they were dragging themselves and their protest signs to the local Tesla dealerships every weekend. People got so mad they were setting Teslas on fire! When people are so pissed they're firebombing dealerships, you can't pretend it's just online murmurings.
Maybe your take is true if you are non-EU, but it definitely isn’t true in the slightest in Europe and is pure copium.
That's a nice way of trivialising what Musk has been doing. It's not just what he says, but his Nazi salutes (also his destruction of the U.S. government) and his general racism and politics.
Do you remember the Ratner's Jewellery collapse? That was people completely boycotting Ratner's due to the owner/CEO, Gerald Ratner comparing his company's products to the quality of a prawn sandwich.