:joker-troll: you get what you fucking deserve

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I have a personal theory that they are lowering the cost of the cars because they are worried the company might be insolvent and are trying to liquidate as much inventory as quickly as possible. This might not be true, but I have to believe that they took out a bunch of money leveraged against where their stock price was at and with the drop in stock price it must have some degree of effect on their ability to get loans, because they are still not generating enough profit to fund their losses from the last five years.

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      It's hard to tell if they're liquidating inventory or reflecting the change in supply. Teslas only have a premium if there aren't other electric options and all the other manufacturers are coming out with them now. They have to be competitive with Honda and the build quality on Honda's cheapest models is vastly superior to a Tesla.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Ngl, been wondering if they pushed the full self driving stuff out there to make themselves too dangerous to fail. Can't have a bunch of unsupported death bots on the road.