Not tobrain on the parade, but the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That's already enough to skew results. Add to that that there's a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked.
Such a low number of people who don't care or haven't heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There's a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.
Also surveys generally are a bad way to do science anyway unless it's psychology, sociology or smt. It really triggers me when people take survey results seriously without critical thought.
Teslas used to account for more than half of all electric cars sold in many countries. The fact that fell to 3% in Germany is a pretty significant drop. Here's hoping we get to 0% in 2026.
I think it's a beautiful irony that Musk sells luxury electric cars but has gone all in on far-right ideology where the supporters are big fans of non-luxury fossil fuel cars. There is a very real possibility the company could be bankrupted in these 4 years as long as we all hold a grudge and refuse to forgive him.
Lots of small businesses owners and hard working contractors vote AfD. The OG nazis were also mainly supported by petit bourgeoisie. Fascism can be described as extremism of the center in a way.
Honestly... the irs thinks it has juristriction overseas. You still "have" to pay tax to the irs (as an american citizen) if you're a citizen in another country and work in that country full time.
my point: the /s might actually not be there for a long time
I like these ones below. While I consider Star Trek the utopian ideal, and as a Canadian could use some Picard daddy energy in my life right now, this whole shitstorm feels more like a resistance, so went with Star Wars.
I really don’t dig the “I bought this before…” versions because they’re face saving, wordy, and somewhat defensive.
To paraphrase Office Space, “Why should I apologize, he’s the one who sucks!”
Europe dislike Teslas now, Asia, Africa and Latin America have BYDs, Canada and Australia are in a trade war with the US... idk why TSLA isn't tanking more
Tesla already was somewhat ridiculed for trying to be above the law. In Germany they tried to circumvent environmental protections and here in Sweden the unions have been fighting them because they’re trying to circumvent our labour market. There’s been strikes for well over a year now.
Not sure how much their non-automotive market is, but they do have other product lines, like solar, battery backup, etc.
Their battery systems run the gamut from Powerwalls for the home to huge utility-grade systems that power companies around the world purchase.
I have a neighbor that has solar panels & a powerwall. He showed me how over the summer excess power is sold back to the power utilities as part of a distributed virtual power plant that consists of over 1200 powerwall owners around the region.
It’s such a shame melon husk is such a massive weenie, because they have or had some interesting products there. Oh well, I suppose you can buy whole home battery systems from other suppliers hey ho.
The same could have been said about Canada, and look what's happened over there. Nah, I'm more worried that the reasons we wouldn't hit the Americans back would be that Labor is a party of whining invertebrates and the Liberals would be more than happy for us to become the fifty-first state.
That's my argument. People with Tesla cars are all carrying on about separating the product from the CEO and I'm like... your money is the difference between him being a relatively harmless crazy person ranting in a public park somewhere, and being the president of the US whose actions are causing real world hardship to a heap of people.