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by __d 882 days ago
Anecdata: I know multiple people who are intending to buy an EV for their next car, and all of them have removed Tesla from their list of possible purchases because of the CEO's behavior over the last couple of years.

And sure, maybe I live in a "woke bubble", but that's a bunch of revenue that would almost certainly have ended up with Tesla that's now going elsewhere.
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rpmisms 882 days ago
And I know multiple rural people (who disagree with you on everything) who either have bought or are planning to buy Tesla vehicles because they're now affordable and really really good.

Also, people who already own Teslas aren't going anywhere. Immense brand loyalty for good reason.

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__d 881 days ago
I don't dispute that Teslas are a good car. I can definitely see why people would like to buy one, and indeed the people I know who intended to buy one did so because it was a good car. There are some issues, sure, but on balance I'm sure there are many happy customers.

I don't see them becoming more affordable though: it looks to me like both Model 3 and Model Y prices are high, and in fact they're only staying still because Tesla is removing features from the low-end configurations.

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rpmisms 880 days ago
Here's a price chart:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F5IQOynIawoXiJPVarLD...

Notably, as inflation rises, they're still dropping prices. Extremely laudable.

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