Makes perfect sense when you see some of the build quality.
Why buy some shoddy slapped together EV at luxury prices when actual car manufacturers have EV options.
Elon was truly benefitting from being the best of one.
Before tesla the only electri option was a prius which was practically inviting harassment.
South Park made a whole episode at the peak of its popularity that prius drivers were worse than climate change because of how smug they were.
Wild that he decided to go full in on trying to get the approval of people who thought that episode was hilarious while trying to sell electric cars.
Yup the actual overriding philosophy of south park is "if you care about anything youre dumb"
Like most libertarians their core belief is "I should be able to say or think whatever I want without consequences like 'people pointing out I'm stupid'."
The only issue is that car manufacturers are doing the same thing. Make it look like a Tesla, but it doesn't have an engine so we don't need to worry about anything else, but shiny luxury looking. And now it's an EV. It's unfortunate Tesla set the standard.
AMERICAN car manufacturers are doing that.
Which is why we have to have 100% tarries on Chinese EVs.
Because they'd kill like two or three different domestic markets.
They'd be the most popular electric car, most popular sedan and most popular commuter vehicle.
💯 the tariffs aren't even the issue. You could sell Chinese EVs at the same cost as everything else and they still would be #1. It's that they still aren't street legal.
Because we are very careful to make sure they aren't street legal through legislation.
The fucking cybertruck is street legal, giant pick up trucks with blind spots lager than children are street legal.
Normies don't give a fuck about his politics. There is a shockingly large contingent of people out there who still think he's actually smart. This is everything to do with how the build quality of Teslas is absolute dog shit and the Cybertruck has a negative stigma that sticks to the whole company like a smell that won't go away.
My MIL is one of these people. It doesn't matter how many times we explain to her, with evidence, that he's a moron. It's like she hits herself with the Men in Black memory eraser after every conversion and next thing you know she's back to saying "well all geniuses are a little bit eccentric and he's the smartest man alive so of course he's a bit strange." It's so exhausting.
I'm so sorry. My Tesla owning dad has had the good taste to shut up about him since the purchase of twitter
There is nobody in the world who is better at cognitive dissonance than Americans
The only real pushback I’ve seen towards him have been from women.
Saw someone driving a Tesla with a bumper sticker that read
Sorry, bought it before we knew he was an asshole!
Which, he was always an asshole, you don't have to be like "I'm a good person, I promise"
Back in the day Elon was an asshole lib. Nowadays he probably openly supports Trump bc he wants to be cool with the kids (people who were born in the 1980 - 1990 and are 10/20 years younger than him).
I've seen the same one. Cringe shit. It's not like any of these car manufacturers CEOs are decent human beings.
Democrats: "We'll do what it takes to fight fascism!'
Me: "If you aggressively pushed for cars to have direct selling - you'd damage the GOP's base of car dealerships and you'd give yourself serious green energy cred because EV firms want to sell direct."
Democrats: "We can't do that!"
Me: "So - your plan is to continue to campaign and fundraise off your 'fascism!' shtick but actually not do anything about it, huh."
He’s trying to surpass Henry Ford and Mercedes in terms of being the most Nazi car manufacturer
This is probably much more the result of Tesla's old model lineup and FSD still being a fake product. Their only new model is the CyberTruck. Their second newest model is the ModelY that was released in 2020, but is based on the 2017 Model 3.
Wasn't this the whole reason for Elon Musk buying Twitter?
The writing was on the wall that Tesla was taking major hits, and Elon wanted to take his money out without signaling to the market that there was anything wrong, and needed a place to put the money (i.e. twitter)
And it would have worked too, if it wasn't for [that meddling habit of tweeting racism].
I am shocked at the amount of BYD cars I have been seeing around. EVs are popping up and I'm hoping we'll get some good infrastructure for them soon
i saw a biyadi showroom on the corner of like the busiest downtown area in a major european city last year. pretty cool.
coming for your upper middle class euros 
Rivian stay winning. I'd love to be able to afford one of their trucks.
only remaining plausible defense of this is that he had to become an epic groyper icon for the frothing fascists comprising some large percentage of this country to get over their weird petro-masculinity and consider EVs. Not that this solves climate change but at least it helps slightly.
