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BYD becomes best selling EV brand in Australia as Tesla sales plunge in January (thedriven.io)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tesla has lost nearly a quarter of its market cap in the past month. Musk has cost shareholders over $100 billion because he can't shut up about conspiracy theories and "woke" nonsense on the site formerly known as Twitter, so now middle-class car buyers who are overwhelmingly liberal-minded refuse to buy Tesla cars. The Tesla brand has been reduced to rubble and is worth a fraction of what it was a few years ago because Musk refuses to stop pissing on it.

I can't believe he's not facing ten shareholder revolts a day over this. If someone fucks up and costs me a hundred billion dollars I'd be out for fucking blood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We just bought a BYD Seal. It's incredibly close to a Tesla 3 and there were pros and cons for both vehicles.... but at the end of the day, the deciding factor for me was having to be associated with Elon Musk. I just couldn't picture myself driving around in a car people associated with the bloke.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elmo has damaged his brand by going full tilt cocaine addled fascist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The brand has always been weird. I don't really know any people with teslas, but i was always wondering where the garages are to fix and service teslas. The closest thing i have seen is a storefront that has room for one car and a desk. Apparently you can buy or bring your car there and then they bring it wherever. I talked to a few people with teslas and they told me the weirdest stories about their cars and maintenance. One of them is a former car mechanic and he said that he only brought it for maintenance but kept the car for more than a month. Upon closer inpection he found out that they switched out the driveshaft without saying anything. Another guy had a brand new tesla and had needed a new windshield and he had to wait for 6 month going. Everything about tesla feels fishy and scammy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty much any car brand will have stories like that. I've had zero issues with my Model 3 in four years so far. It's a perfectly fine car, but I won't buy another one because of Musk's recent antics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Only an idiot would buy a Tesla, the vehicle is locked down with software and Musk is unpredictable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Chinese car maker BYD has overtaken Tesla

They're both made in China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With any car brand I like to question the reliability of a brand and its company before I trust them

I suggest others do as well before going in blindly I this brand interests you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are BYD taxis operating for over a decade around the world. Their reliability is not an unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_e6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, there is a stop sale on the model 3 in Australia because they didn't give access to the rear middle seat baby seat anchor. Only the left and right seat are accessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that the ISOFIX? Like did they just not put it in the build for the Australian version?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's there, but it's covered. Not sure why they decided to cover it on highland. Costs money to cut the hole, and they reused the same casting so the anchor was already there?