So i finally drove a Tesla
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This is just not true universally. While many people want to look cool and keep up with the Joneses, some need to new cars, some like the new tech as well the idea of not purchasing gas. The drawback is charging and lots of plugging in and plugging out, but the younger generation do not have as big an issue with it. The Tesla brand has very strong brand cache, and its different from MB/BMW or Audi. A Tesla is cheap to fuel, is totally different, drives very fast and is all over the press.
It doesn't matter now much growth Tesla has. What matters is making money and it is profit that matters. The car company that makes the cheapest, and longest lasting product is the company that will win. Tesla recalls have electrified in the last little while, just before New Years 450,00 cars were recalled for something small like a camera mounted on the truck might cause a crash. Tesla is one massive battery recall away from a massive disaster
It doesn't matter now much growth Tesla has. What matters is making money and it is profit that matters. The car company that makes the cheapest, and longest lasting product is the company that will win. Tesla recalls have electrified in the last little while, just before New Years 450,00 cars were recalled for something small like a camera mounted on the truck might cause a crash. Tesla is one massive battery recall away from a massive disaster
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Originally Posted by Hameed
And there is the closing statement of doom and gloom that you always make about Tesla lol. 👍
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And in the same post she complimented someone on buying a Tesla and how great it will be that the owners kids will grow up loving a Tesla......
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Hameed, please put lexsctjill on your ignore list
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Originally Posted by Hameed
But you still have to go through the other objections that LexsJill never stops talking about - the onerous chore of constantly plugging in and out etc
And in the same post she complimented someone on buying a Tesla and how great it will be that the owners kids will grow up loving a Tesla......
And in the same post she complimented someone on buying a Tesla and how great it will be that the owners kids will grow up loving a Tesla......
Almost everything The bears said of Tesla has gone the opposite way. Tesla isn't bankrupt and is the most valuable auto company in the world. Tesla isn't bleeding money and now has one of the highest margins in auto. Electricity rates aren't going through the roof with even a 10% penetration in California. Them predicting battery recall...I say good. Probably means it will never happen.
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Hameed, please put lexsctjill on your ignore list
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All of the Tesla doom and gloom predictions are continually disproven, and once they are those detractors move the goalposts and predict another threshold where Tesla will fail. Tesla is not going to fail. The future is very bright for Tesla.
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tesla product quality is crap compared to apple.
tesla has loads of gimmicky / juvenile features, apple doesn't do that.
tesla is not known for great customer service, apple is.
tesla only sells direct. apple sells direct and through retailers.
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in the sense of 'cool/trendy to own' and 'cool tech' sure, but in many ways, absolutely not.
tesla product quality is crap compared to apple.
tesla has loads of gimmicky / juvenile features, apple doesn't do that.
tesla is not known for great customer service, apple is.
tesla only sells direct. apple sells direct and through retailers.
tesla product quality is crap compared to apple.
tesla has loads of gimmicky / juvenile features, apple doesn't do that.
tesla is not known for great customer service, apple is.
tesla only sells direct. apple sells direct and through retailers.
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Don't be so sure. Their unwillingness to accept unions may be their downfall. It has put them at a disadvantage with tax credits in proposed legislation. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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in the sense of 'cool/trendy to own' and 'cool tech' sure, but in many ways, absolutely not.
tesla product quality is crap compared to apple.
tesla has loads of gimmicky / juvenile features, apple doesn't do that.
tesla is not known for great customer service, apple is.
tesla only sells direct. apple sells direct and through retailers.
tesla product quality is crap compared to apple.
tesla has loads of gimmicky / juvenile features, apple doesn't do that.
tesla is not known for great customer service, apple is.
tesla only sells direct. apple sells direct and through retailers.
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Tesla doesn't need credits. Unions were part of the reason General Motors went bankrupt.