Elon Musk

failed to meet reserve https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3RyYX4Nx/2024-tesla-cybertruck-foundation-series

no way all those preorders turn into orders.
the preorder deposit was $100.

heh

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m7w6mfn35d53chutrzjzgkng/bafkreiaxcfdjmxybf2ujidzan663taxmfgsvo2nub45yctorglvzawoo5m@jpeg

Saw my first cyber truck in the wild last night. Wow! Bright red.

it's crazy how quickly the Tesla became the douche bag's car of choice

Saw my first cyber truck in the wild last night. Wow! Bright red.

I thought they only came in stainless steel. (Until I got to Montana, I thought Tesla cars only came in white, but I've seen blue and red ones around here.)

you can get an aftermarket vinyl wrap put on there, i seen a black one online

they come in stainless streel and in italian hoagie

White was for several years the only Tesla color that wasn't $1,000-$2,500 extra cost which made it more popular. Black was originally the one no-extra-cost color; now it appears that grey is.

it's not the reason, but it'd be funny if the unfinished look was meant to be a prompt for people to wrap or paint their own vehicles because Elon refuses to let them do an interesting color on the other models

https://bondangle.substack.com/p/tesla-q1-trends-rockslide

$TSLA fundamentals getting worse, tbd if the stock price will continue to reflect that

whats it say

i dunno i just read the first graf above the paywall cuz i'm not a subscriber but the first graf sounds bad

lol it does sound bad

I mean you have to go back to pre-pandemic to find a time when people were actually excited about Tesla, all they've done since are self-driving features which don't work and the dumbest looking truck in the history of trucks

previous article linked there (from 1/26/24) isn't behind paywall

If you reuse the truss steel that fell, it could be functioning in 3 to 6 months.

The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2024

we should all heed the thoughts of such a gifted engineer

Such a grifted engineer

i was the actual guy— the guy— who yelled freebird at skynerd. i was 6.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-dives-into-advertising-after-years-of-resistance-87810a4b

pathetic

Cybertruck drives off lot, immediately breaks with critical steering issue pic.twitter.com/OtOy7Ttysd

— Elai (@elaifresh) April 1, 2024

lol can you imagine trying to navigate this error screen on a highway

awful stuff

What are you talking about, everyone knows that looking at your phone while you're driving is only dangerous because the screens are so small. This solves the problem by making the screen the size of a small TV, if you can't easily read that wall of text while you're driving, maybe get better glasses, grandpa.

Bathtub curve. Failures tend to occur either right away or much later on. It’s under warranty, they’ll fix it. I’ve owned a non-Tesla that drove off the lot with a critical drivability issue.

— CakeLasers (@CakeLasers) April 1, 2024

skill issue

Warranty – also anecdotal

GETTING WORSE!!! HELP MEEEEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY CYBERTRUCK????? 😭😭😭 @wmorrill3 @elonmusk @Tesla @cybertruck pic.twitter.com/I7bFRUMRtA

— Lamar MK (@LamarMK) March 30, 2024

another bad cybertruck steering vid

cybertruck apparently uses a variable steering ratio tech i wonder if that's got something to do with it

i wouldve just bought a nice car instead

Or a nice computer.

i would just run linux on a ten year old laptop jk im a mac user

uh oh

Tesla Inc. suffered its first year-over-year sales drop since the early days of the Covid pandemic.

Tesla handed over 386,810 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company said in a statement Tuesday. That fell well short of analysts’ average estimate for 449,080 deliveries. The stock fell 7% in early New York trading.

is that good

hell id be happy to sell one car gotta start somewhere you know

have to wonder if his personal popularity is finally having an impact. that or the fact they're selling the same shitty cars they designed in 2017. this is not happening to other car companies iiuc.

some marketing company saying as much fwiw

According to a recent survey by corporate reputation management platform Caliber, as first reported by Reuters, the carmaker's reputation is plunging in part due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior, putting off potential buyers.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/buyers-avoiding-teslas-elon-musk-toxic

Look, I'm not trying to get @GROK (pronounced GROKE) fired, but it's definitely gone WOKE and is now calling @elonmusk a bigot and a racist for his attacks on DEI.

A story in four acts

No wonder Musk hates AI so much, eh @ChatGPTapp, @GoogleAI? pic.twitter.com/E6wPDFutsB

— Pastor Ben (@BenjaminPDixon) April 3, 2024

not sure if it was this thread it was mentioned on, but the guy calling in to Infowars turned out not to be Musk, and was probably doing an impersonation.

lol they’re fucked

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/

“Elon’s directive is to go all in on robotaxi,” that person said.

https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/6/68/TFU08-toy_Overcharge.jpg

waymos are pretty cool. but when you look at a waymo and you look at a tesla there’s a pretty big tech gap.

Maybe this genius disruptor should just try *raising* prices on everything, see how that works.

you look at a waymo and the two people monitoring the driving from a remote location look back at you

Actual footage of Waymo in operation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUtXMNizVo

given the fash shit he's been posting on his shitty website recently I cannot wait for this dickhole to shart his way out of business. at least delorean made a cool-looking car and wasn't a nazi fuck.

If he really wanted to kill "woke" he would introduce a new car called the Tesla Woke.

you look at a waymo and the two people monitoring the driving from a remote location look back at you

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

Robotaxi unveil on 8/8

hmm well played sir epic 8/8 haha

plenty of time to invent the robotaxi

Will the robotaxi dance like the Charleston like his “android” announcement?