not sure if Elon Musk has woken up to how toxic his brand has become among environmentally-conscious electric car buyers
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Jim Pickard
Tesla, the world’s largest EV maker, in January registered only 1,277 new cars in Germany
it’s a drop of 59% compared with the same month last year
www.ft.com/content/ea23...
it’s a drop of 59% compared with the same month last year
www.ft.com/content/ea23...
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So on balance, not yet.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/tesla-sales-plummet-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/
He's got more money than most of us could imagine, he's bought the US government, which he's ripping apart from the inside, and, after a lifetime with few friends, he's the hero of the kind of people who bullied him at school.
Besides, EVs are probably too "woke" for him now.
The question is whether the other shareholders recognize how toxic he is and have the guts to replace him at the top.
He owns 13%, so with a concerted effort they could shift him.
Which is probably why he pulled the hard right turn, the only way to save his wealth as it's all in Tesla shares
People already take written off Teslas and salvage their electric motors etc to convert gas sports cars to electric.
He has control of the finances of the whole of America with no checks on what he is doing with them.
The same people who Musk keeps trash talking
Electric cars? Tesla? Nikola forever!
They served their purpose and got him and his little army where they needed to be and now he has a whole new world to conquer and loot!
It's a transport automation company. The *real* value lies in the data used to run automated transport. Right now the EV element of Tesla could go bankrupt and the company would still be $$ valuable.
The Tesla automation data is better than all other EV makers combined.
See also Boring company and SpaceX shuttle services.
Remember always: maskirovka. Nothing is what it seems.
I am not convinced.