Tesla Hate Thread - oh and come seethe about EVs in general with me

[Diesel]

I did some work on a Tesla not that long ago and it was a nightmare. just time consuming and finicky.
I followed the service documentation and did my job but the customer ended up coming back so I took a second crack at it doing it the way I felt best. We told him he might just have to take it to the dealer if he's not happy.
So he takes it to the dealer and they re-fucked everything and on the 3rd try ultimately put it back the way I had it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm just going to decline to service them from now on. They can take it to the dealer and pay 2x the price if I can't trust the documentation and have to do everything twice. It's just not worth it.

 

[The Ugly One]

‘I might as well be driving a UFO’: Cybertruck owners say their EVs are leaving people in awe—or really pissed off (archive)

Man, I can't even imagine being the sort of person who decides if I like a car or not based on whether or not someone licks my favorite politician's balls on Twitter.

It feels good to hate the Cybertruck because it's ugly and retarded.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Fisker has massively slashed prices on their Ocean EV, as in $14k-24k price cuts, to try to stave off bankruptcy.

It would be tempting to say this is a sign of the bottom dropping out of the EV market. Very tempting... if it is, the one good thing to come of it will be a huge surplus of cheap, high capacity lithium cells. Off-grid and whole-home-UPS types will be salivating at the thought.

 

[proangelwhangs]

Bentley joins the growing list of Auto Makers that are pushing back on their all-EV transitions.

And while this is still a Cybertruck, this Cybertrump livery was very well made:

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As horrible as this truck is it sure is a godsend for wrap-shops.
Not only is it super easy to apply but every sucker who buys one essentially requires PPF or a wrap to protect it from the inevitable surface rust / having to completely refinish a panel every time it gets a little rust residue on it.
Besides also being the sort of vehicle that attracts the obnoxious trend seekers who tend to also seek out wraps.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Fisker has massively slashed prices on their Ocean EV, as in $14k-24k price cuts, to try to stave off bankruptcy. However, given Fisker's history of financial failures, as well as the dire levels of these cost cuts, it's literally him trying to sell those EVs off to suckers, before the whole company crashes and burns.

Second time is the charm for that joke of a company.

 

[Dick Mason]

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-builds-6-millionth-car/

Tesla Builds 6 Millionth Car​

Tesla has built its 6 millionth car, achieving a production increase of 1 million units in just 6 months. This achievement took place at the company’s Gigafactory in Fremont and was announced by Tesla’s official account through X.

Tesla has built a holocaust of cars. That's a lucky number. I look forward to them turning double holocaust.

 

[seri0us]

Tesla has built a holocaust of cars.

Didn't they reach≤200,000 built years ago?

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

I want to hate the cybertruck but can't. As much as I would definitely not want to own it, it's crazy that they actually brought this thing to market and I appreciate the balls. Unlike, say, German automakers where each new generation of car is progressively blander, more digitized, more electrified with a more angular design that's more and more difficult to distinguish from the previous generations, and overall fucking gayer like a frog boiling in estrogenated water, this thing skips all the inbetween steps and delivers insanity.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I want to hate the cybertruck but can't. As much as I would definitely not want to own it, it's crazy that they actually brought this thing to market and I appreciate the balls. Unlike, say, German automakers where each new generation of car is progressively blander, more digitized, more electrified with a more angular design that's more and more difficult to distinguish from the previous generations, and overall fucking gayer like a frog boiling in estrogenated water, this thing skips all the inbetween steps and delivers insanity.

It's basically a 21st century DeLorean without the syle. I can appreciate the meme, but nothing else.

 

[geckogoy]

The auto industry has been chasing the LA status car market for years, you reap what you sow and indeed they richly deserve to die to this thing.

 

[DavidS877]

If Tesla had brought an actual pickup truck to market they would have easily beaten all the other manufacturers. It's really more of an SUV where you can sometimes roll up the back cover and put taller stuff in. Hard/impossible to load from the sides into the bed, ugly as fuck, etc.

Ford had the right idea with the F150 but the range is too limiting especially if you want to tow.

Chevy/GMC looks like an Avalanche, but at least is mostly usable as a truck and towing seems decent.

If RAM delivers on their range promises they may well win the first generation of EV pickups, but they'll be last to market.

 

[Betonhaus]

If RAM delivers on their range promises they may well win the first generation of EV pickups, but they'll be last to market.

Being last to market means nothing if everyone else tripped on their own shoelaces.

I'd rather they just do a proper diesel-electric and figure out the battery tech later

 

[DavidS877]

Being last to market means nothing if everyone else tripped on their own shoelaces.

I'd rather they just do a proper diesel-electric and figure out the battery tech later

Diesel Electric in cars almost always needs some battery to make sense due to frequent speed changes. Luckily that's exactly what the other RAM model is doing, sadly it's gas+electric+battery, but full electric drivetrain.

You can always get an Edison conversion kit, it will be Diesel, they're from Canada so I'm sure it will be great.

 

[Absolutego]

My favorite part about this EV rollback is that the laws banning ICE cars are still on the books. unless they can get them removed they're fucked.

The places that pass those laws with stated deadlines for climate change-motivated environmental targets all put in provisions that essentially let them extend the deadline whenever they want.
Those laws aren't real laws, they're a combination of standard pork barrel legislation to hand taxpayer funds towards donors and chum to get the goldfish in their base to have another talking point in service of bragging about how green and progressive and superior their leaders are.

 

[Betonhaus]

The places that pass those laws with stated deadlines for climate change-motivated environmental targets all put in provisions that essentially let them extend the deadline whenever they want.
Those laws aren't real laws, they're a combination of standard pork barrel legislation to hand taxpayer funds towards donors and chum to get the goldfish in their base to have another talking point in service of bragging about how green and progressive and superior their leaders are.

But imagine of the laws were strict and forced manufacturers to come out with external combustion engines and we bring back steam engines?

 

[teriyakiburns]

Diesel Electric in cars almost always needs some battery to make sense due to frequent speed changes.

Those are the sort of circumstances where some form of supercapacitor would be more suitable than a battery. A couple of hybrid models already use them for rapid acceleration changes and brake energy harvesting.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-builds-6-millionth-car/

Tesla Builds 6 Millionth Car​

Tesla has built a holocaust of cars. That's a lucky number. I look forward to them turning double holocaust.

That's a lot of future ovens

 

[Thiletonomics]

Ford will be pushing back on their EV plans, as their new 3-row EV SUV will be delayed from 2025, to 2027. / Archived

With Ford losing $5 billion+/year on their EV program, it makes you wonder how much worse EV startup companies are doing right now.

 

[Betonhaus]

You know, I really thought someone would by now pivot to a fully electric drivetrain, with an onboard gas generator that they can swap for a big battery pack or whatever the next big thing is.