Elon Musk is Making Tesla Toxic

Monday, February 17, 2025

Tesla sales are in free fall in Europe right now. Last month, Norway--where EVs overtook internal combustion vehicles in total market share in 2024--recorded a biting 37.9 percent slump. At the same time, Tesla sales in France fell by a thumping 63.4 percent. And it gets even worse: In Spain, Tesla sales plummeted by 75.4 percent.

Posted by retort at 10:52 AM | 28 COMMENTS | permalink

A recent survey by Dutch news outlet EenVandaag got responses from 432 Tesla drivers. Some "31 percent are either contemplating selling their car or have already done so," the survey found. Forty percent of owners felt embarrassed to own a Tesla.

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Group protests Elon Musk's cost-cutting outside Tesla dealership in Palo Alto
www.nbcbayarea.com

...Dozens of people lined the streets outside of the Tesla dealership in Palo Alto Sunday. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-17 11:23 AM

This is great news.

Hope to score a cheap model3.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-17 11:31 AM

There's probably one burning outside your hooch right now as you're gabbling.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-17 11:38 AM

2 | POSTED BY IAMRUNT

You could probably get one is a trade for a few dozen eggs.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-17 11:41 AM

It's a crap car anyway.

Tech, Tesla Problematic In J.D. Power Initial Quality Study
forbes.com

Too bad it took people to notice the crap owner to change their minds on the car, but a non-sale is a non-sale.

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-17 11:51 AM

There's probably one burning outside your hooch right now as you're gabbling.
#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Don't see that, but a parking lot full of them.

You ever seen a FANG parking lot?

40% Teslas, can't wait.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-17 11:58 AM

Roofer claims customer backlash to Swasticar cost him $70K in a month

www.rawstory.com

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-17 11:58 AM

He makes more money ripping off the taxpayers WHILE violating federal laws to care.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-17 11:58 AM

Roofer claims customer backlash to Swasticar cost him $70K in a month

WOMP WOMP

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-02-17 11:59 AM

I learned my lesson many moons ago when someone snapped the aerial off my old Plymouth Fury in high school because it had a small Goldwater pennant hanging from it.

You're really flashing neon with one of Leon's butt uglies.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-17 11:59 AM

"You ever seen a FANG parking lot?"

No, but the one at "Lazy Days" in Islamorada can get a tad crowded.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-17 12:04 PM

S0... Tesla, worse than a PT Cruiser.

I bought a two year old '76 Alpha Romeo Spyder before I left TX for CA.... what a great car that was.

www.alamy.com

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-17 12:05 PM

This is great news.

Hope to score a cheap model3.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut

It'll be harder to play your "im not a fascist" game that way.

Countdown to you whining about being LUMPED IN with all the nazis who buy teslas, even after youre here declaring that tesla's nazism is what makes it appealing for you.

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-17 12:55 PM

10.

AU H2O!

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-17 07:20 PM

What the hell is a Polestar?

#15 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-17 07:22 PM

What the hell is a Polestar?

#15 | Posted by Dbt2

Volvo-designed EVs built in china.

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-17 07:36 PM

#13 says the guy that ordered a NEW Tesla.

Where as I am just buying used.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-17 07:44 PM

No, but the one at "Lazy Days" in Islamorada can get a tad crowded.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

You'd know.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-17 07:45 PM

#10 I didn't know liberals were violent.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-17 07:47 PM

This is great news.

Hope to score a cheap model3.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut

LOL

Swazticars are flammable!

Some unemployed engineer type gonna be following swazticars out into the wilds - kill the occupants, and turn it into the ultimate IED.

Glorious!

#20 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-17 08:51 PM

16. Thanks.

#21 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-17 10:16 PM

Countdown to you whining about being LUMPED IN with all the nazis who buy teslas

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-17 12:55 PM | Reply

.... sometimes its too easy.

#22 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-18 07:37 AM

#18
Oh, yessir, I sure do.
Still a bit bemused, though, about you getting lost in the parking lot at SF's Fang Restaurant.
But logic isn't really a big thang for you, is it, pookie?

#23 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-02-18 08:24 AM

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

I didn't realize it was that bad. Look Tesla started with a good premise and was full of people with a goal. The problem is they always had a dictator at the helm. He built the company but doesn't seem capable of running it. That goes along with his current foray into government.

Mark McCann just did an AWESOME take down on Tesla. -YouTube In summary, he goes after a couple key questions: What is Tesla doing with the money for reserving vehicles? Why is it impossible to get my down payment back? They even canceled the production of 2 vehicles he had reserved because they canceled the model period but still no money back. Is a class action in the future?

#24 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-02-18 01:24 PM

The premise was you could save the planet driving sports cars with giant batteries, in a car so advanced it drove itself, that you only don't have already because of a massive multinational conspiracy involving rival governments, oil companies, and automotive manufacturers to keep cars ------.

You were being lied to the entire time, but idealism trumped skepticism, and this is what we've been saddled with because of that.

#25 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-18 03:01 PM

Sure, let's all just keep doing what we've been doing for the past 100 years or so.

That's how problems get solved.

#26 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-18 08:01 PM

I don't know if you've heard of this technology called "Hybrid", but it's a much more efficient use of resources.

#27 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-02-19 08:26 AM

So, the exact same thing PLUS a battery. Wow. Who knew?

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-19 10:14 AM

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