Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car
Musk chased right-wing approval, but the only thing he got was declining sales and a dying brand.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
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Musk chased right-wing approval, but the only thing he got was declining sales and a dying brand.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
John Richard
in reply to juergen • • •This headline is sensationalized. I hear things like this but then ask myself what do I see when I go on a drive. I live in a solid blue state, and I see a lot of new Teslas. Tesla is still the only manufacturer that can sell direct to consumer here in Washington State:
washingtonstatestandard.com/20…
Yes, you heard that right. In a solid blue state with Democrats in charge of House & Senate in the state, they still vote in favor of Musk. I honestly think people that believe that car dealerships are the bastion of honest & fair business dealings are braindead though, just NPC zombies or something.
Tesla to maintain exclusive hold on direct EV sales to WA consumers • Washington State Standard
Jerry Cornfield (Washington State Standard)juergen
in reply to John Richard • • •As a person from germany, this feels weird - like, why do you even need a delivery to the consumer? in germany, we have car seller shops. Even in the case where you live in a rural area, i'd imagine you can go to one such shop with 2 persons and you drive your new car home back and the other person drives with their car home.
I mean, i don't know stuff about cars, since i don't even have one (i can rely on trains and busses for my needs)
John Richard
in reply to juergen • • •lka1988
in reply to juergen • • •I think you're misunderstanding the situation. In the Great U.S. of A.™®©, car manufacturers are forbidden to sell directly to customers, and instead are required to go through independently-owned dealerships that act as middlemen between the manufacturer and the customer. This allows dealerships to arbitrarily control how the cars are sold, add unremovable "dealer options", and that thing everybody loves: markups! The manufacturers have no control over this.
What Tesla managed to do (in some states, at least) is introduce a direct sale model that allows them to sell their cars directly to the customer with no middleman. However, because of archaic laws that really should be repealed at this point, the car can't be delivered to you at the store - it has to be shipped to you.
Yes, it's incredibly stupid. Hi, I'm American and I hate it here.
🌶️ - knighthawk
in reply to John Richard • • •not everyone knew who he really was. musk used to have a pr team guiding his public persona. it wasn't until he fired them that people got to see who he really was little by little.
also, a lot of people kept singing his praises and still do. for me the thing that really did it was when he started talking about tech stuff and I'm a programmer so i knew he was full of crap. but watching non tech people believe it made me realize that he's been lying the whole time i just didn't realize until it came to something that's in my field of expertise
Sarah Brown
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Jo Miran
in reply to juergen • • •My boomer uncle just bought a brand new one. I relentlessly send him articles like this and reports on the tanking resale value of Teslas. I'm having too good a time busting his balls.
EDIT: That last line of the article goes hard.
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gilindoeslemmy
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