1: Given the weird (undeserved) hype, not sure there were many unsold ones.

Since F-150 Lightning came out in early 2022, and Cybertruck came out in late 2023 / early 2024, and is still in the Foundation Series, isn’t it obvious that a commercial company isn’t going to buy marked up limited edition vehicles if they’re just going to use them for normal business activity?

I would assume that with the Cybertruck just having launched recently the other trucks have been in the SpaceX fleet for a while. Plus, with the sharp depreciation EVs are taking, it probably doesn’t make sense to decommission and sell them if they are serving their intended purpose.

A (very mild) counterpoint might be that using Cybertrucks as work vehicles during a period of extremely limited production would cut down on the number of Cybertrucks being delivered to customers (aka social media assholes doing stupid shit with/to their Cybertrucks)?

The goal here is to fuel this absolutely psychotic one-dimensional obsession with tesla that is causing some weird existential crisis for these hack scratch bloggers (this isn’t journalism, it’s straight up trash copy paste garbage so we won’t call them journalists). Not sure why they’ve gone all in on tesla - it’s…

According to this data, Tesla models lose value twice as fast as Alfa Romeo and three times as fast as Maserati. This massive depreciation drop is mostly tied to Elon’s decision to constantly cut prices on new models, forcing an ever-widening gap for pre-owned cars.

“Good!”

Before anyone else says it: If you can’t afford cash, you can’t afford it.

“If dealers aren’t willing to give them more than $40,000, where exactly does Ramsey think a buyer will come from that will give them $10,000 over what’s presumably the market value”

Tesla is in no better place to “”abuse” this monopoly now than they were 5+ years ago. They had by far and away the best charging network before other companies started using NACS, and they still have it now.

It’s being reported that there is no deal in place for Stellantis use of the Tesla Supercharger network (how Stellantis of them), only the planned switch to the SAE standard plug:

Giulia owners when the topic of one comes up: “they’re more reliable than you think!!”

That’s not what I read. Journalists were having serious problems with these from almost the moment they left the parking lots. Its interesting that so many are coming here to defend these when the proof is in their sales: Nobody is buying these because they are in fact pieces of crap. And trading in a basically new…

Rational author: “Tesla asked to update under-sized warning lights on most of their U.S.-sold vehicles”

Two things can be true:

It’s more people love to shit all over Tesla’s for no other reason than they see other people shitting all over Tesla’s.

Headline sounds like a hit piece. Stated differently: “Tesla addresses voluntary recall to every vehicle with OTA update and no customer impact”

Your very first sentence is wrong. It was a voluntary recall and if this kind of crap doesn’t convince you NHTSA is useless, your crazy. Here is the before and after change.

It throws a CEL and doesn’t do stop-start but will still start normally... did you read the article?

“In reality, it’s hard to measure how much fuel this function saves”