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

[CaptainAutism69]

Xiaomi rolled out a software update for the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra to software cap the car to ~900 horsepower (it has 1548 horsepower), which can only be removed by completing a qualifying lap on an approved race track. It also adds a 60 second cooldown on it's launch control feature. / Archive

However, Xiaomi quickly reverted those changes due to mass owner outcry. On one hand, software capping car features is a dumbass thing to do. (and car makers do that to lock certain features behind paywalls) But on the other hand, drivers don't seem to understand that training with a 1500 horsepower battery missile like the SU7 Ultra is needed so that you don't throw away your ~$73k "car" by crashing it, and also to protect the safety of the driver and others, even moreso after the fatal Xiaomi SU7 crash that happened in March.

When I was younger I binned 120hp due to not understanding RWD cars. You need to ease into it, practise and train. You can't just tard rangle 1500 hp. Hell even my 435 hp Aston scares me sometimes.

 

[RandomGibberish]

When I was younger I binned 120hp due to not understanding RWD cars. You need to ease into it, practise and train. You can't just tard rangle 1500 hp. Hell even my 435 hp Aston scares me sometimes.

Yeah 500 HP and RWD is way too much for 99% of people.

Case in point:

 

[CaptainAutism69]

Yeah 500 HP and RWD is way too much for 99% of people.

Case in point:

500hp and any drive is too much for most people. There are things you don’t experience on the road in normal conditions that will fuck you the first time you encounter it. I had brake fade in an Elise on the track and was able to get out of that without a serious crash thanks to it’s weight and low power…in 1500hp 2 and something tonnes… dead

 

[Sho'nuff]

They do where it matters (China).

We don't know if they actually do sell them yet, government heavily subsidizes ev purchases which is what we did for many years and then when we stopped EV sales fell off a cliff.
Right now mfgs are selling evs to the Chinese government, if and when the Chinese stop heavily subsidizing purchases, we will know where EVs really stand.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

dunno if this was posted in this thread already:

"China’s EV Catches Fire, Burning an Entire Street! Car Show Chaos, Four EVs Smashed"

- China Observer

 

[The Ugly One]

Yeah 500 HP and RWD is way too much for 99% of people.

Case in point:

That model in the first few 300 hp. It also has all of about 15 pounds above the rear wheels and can be quite terrifying if the tires have three drops of water on them. My next car was AWD, and I don't think I'll ever go back to RWD. Might get another Mustang, though, never say never.

 

[Thiletonomics]

dunno if this was posted in this thread already:

"China’s EV Catches Fire, Burning an Entire Street! Car Show Chaos, Four EVs Smashed"

- China Observer

It was also mentioned in the video that BYD has a bounty program for people to report criticism of their cars for cash rewards, and Xiaomi also silenced a video blogger because he was trying to warn people about how electronic door handles can be dangerous or lethal in a car crash if you can't get out of your car because the doors wont open. Those stifling of valid criticisms is in-character with Chinese companies and the CCP.

Avatr has come under fire because a blogger debunked the company's 0.21 Cd drag coefficient claim on the Avatr 12 model, and Avatr denies the bloggers claims and filed a lawsuit against the blogger. / Archive Avatr also deleted advertising materials with the 0.21 drag coefficient claim.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

BYD has a bounty program for people to report criticism of their cars for cash rewards

That totally doesn't sound corrupt at all.

 

[RandomGibberish]

Can we talk about what a piece of shit the Porsche Taycan (Gaycan) is?

I drove it for a day for 300 miles and I noticed a few things.

It‘s a HUGE car but it gives you less interior space than a fucking VW Polo.

You sit in it cramped and even though it‘s a „Grand Coupé“… the back doors are fucking useless and and any boomer with a BMI over 30 (Read: The average Porsche buyer) will NOT fit in it, stalker child.



They fucked up the things people touch the most on the car: the door handles and the steering wheel.

The door handles: You grab the long end of the plastic and pull it. Door goes up. Easy enough, right? WRONG!

Open it up too much and the handle SNAPS at you back with the speed of a thousand light years.

I kid you not. In the whole day I drove it the door handle hurt my fucking hand like 3 times.
I even got it stuck in there 1 time and it pinched the skin of my hand and didn‘t want to let go.


The steering wheel: The stitching inside the steering wheel fucking hurts to touch.
I‘ve never seen something like this before.
It‘s like holding a wheel with small spikes and it‘s really uncomfortable.

Even with manly gym workout hands.
And I drove a lot of cars from cheap to expensive and they NEVER had an issue like this.

Steering:
It has too much power and it‘s really unstable in slight corners.
A 2018 BMW 3 series felt much safer than this smartphone on wheels.

And I drove the 4S with 600 HP and all wheel drive.
It‘s a „sports car“ and it wanted to kill me all the time.

Charging and acceleration is fast - you‘re faster than 99% of cars on the Autobahn.

But maaan, paying as much for electricity as gasoline AND having a 1/3 of the range of a 911 makes me think „What‘s the point?“

What pisses me off is those „reviewers“ that make ads for Porsche and NEVER address shit like this!

And the boomers walk into the store and proudly say „One Mid-Life Crisis Mobile please!“

After they already took delivery they touch the steering wheel and cry, use the door handle and lose their hand and they can‘t admit defeat or their neighbor John might think that he got demoted at his job or whatever.

Maybe Porsche is based for punishing boomers that way? Who knows.

Maybe that‘s why they lost 70% of their value.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

GM in their infinite wisdom has released a "bespoke" EV called the Cadillac Celestiq that has a selling price for around $340000 USD. Absolutely bonkers and more ridiculous than the Taycan. It looks like shit too in typical GM styling fashion.

There's absolutely nothing special about this bespoke car in aesthetics, tech, or even performance as it only gets a measly ~300 miles of range. Trash like this makes stuff like the BYD Seagull look good despite the perceived QC issues for it being Chinese.

GM trash

 

[DavidS877]

GM in their infinite wisdom has released a "bespoke" EV called the Cadillac Celestiq that has a selling price for around $340000 USD. Absolutely bonkers and more ridiculous than the Taycan. It looks like shit too in typical GM styling fashion.

There's absolutely nothing special about this bespoke car in aesthetics, tech, or even performance as it only gets a measly ~300 miles of range. Trash like this makes stuff like the BYD Seagull look good despite the perceived QC issues for it being Chinese.

GM trash

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Here's the $60k-$80k Cadillac Lyriq, note how it looks totally different with about 300-320 mile range.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Here's the $60k-$80k Cadillac Lyriq, note how it looks totally different with about 300-320 mile range.

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The audacity of GM. It's pretty much a lifted Celestiq.

 

[Freedom Fighter]

GM in their infinite wisdom has released a "bespoke" EV called the Cadillac Celestiq that has a selling price for around $340000 USD. Absolutely bonkers and more ridiculous than the Taycan. It looks like shit too in typical GM styling fashion.

There's absolutely nothing special about this bespoke car in aesthetics, tech, or even performance as it only gets a measly ~300 miles of range. Trash like this makes stuff like the BYD Seagull look good despite the perceived QC issues for it being Chinese.

GM trash

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I saw one of these in the wild a few days ago. First thought was "What the fuck is that pile of shit?"
Seriously ugly, looks like it should have windows back there but doesn't. $340K for that shit, incredible.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Xiaomi is now selling a $5800 Xiaomi SU7 Ultra carbon fiber hood that looks like the prototype version, but buyers quickly discovered that it's only for looks and doesn't provide actual ventilation. / Archive

 

[Thiletonomics]

Apparently, the new Mercedes-Benz CLA EV will only be compatible with 800-volt architecture chargers, so it will NOT be able to charge with 400-volt chargers that are much more common in the US and Europe, as Tesla's Supercharging Network also uses only 400-volt chargers:



800-volt chargers are A LOT more rare in comparison to 400-volt ones:



This move is even more dumb because Lucid and Hyundai's EVs, despite them being designed for 800-volt chargers, can also charge at 400-volt ones at a reduced charging rate.

 

[DavidS877]

This move is even more dumb because Lucid and Hyundai's EVs, despite them being designed for 800-volt chargers, can also charge at 400-volt ones at a reduced charging rate.

Porsche too, they run 800V only with a boost converter on-board for 400V units. My car uses an interesting method. All of the battery sizes run at 400V but the largest can reconfigure the battery to charge at 800V, which is much nicer than Tesla Superchargers.

1000 seems low as almost every Electrify America has at least one or two 350kW/800v units, but I guess that's really not that many.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

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98-year-old vet crushes Tesla with tank to protest Musk​

The British army veteran was making a point about fascism, but inadvertently showed off the Model 3's robust engineering

In a bizarre mashup of political protest, war history lesson, and modern EV engineering demo, a 98-year-old Second World War veteran just played out a scene that would make Grandpa Simpson proud. Forget yelling at clouds, though, this British army vet drove a Sherman tank over a Tesla Model 3. The delightfully absurd stunt was orchestrated by the U.K.-based political action group Led By Donkeys, known for its theatrical protests and viral videos. The 90-second tank clip is its latest effort, a YouTube-ready take-down of Elon Musk, whom the group says has been “using his immense power to support the far-right in Europe.”

To deliver this fiery message, Led By Donkeys turned to Ken Turner, a real-life war hero who fought fascism on actual battlefields 80 years ago. Now nearly a century old, Turner is still fighting the good fight, this time behind the controls of a 30-ton (American) Sherman tank with a personalized mission: flatten a Tesla with a “FASCISM” vanity plate stuck on it.

“We’ve crushed fascism before, and we’ll crush it again,” the energetic nonagenarian declares before rolling over the blue Model 3 with purpose. Honestly, all that was missing was him shaking a fist and shouting at the car.

But here’s the twist: the Tesla kinda, well, survived.

Despite the tank’s 70,000-plus-pound weight, the Model 3’s core structure stayed impressively intact, all things considered. Sure, the glass roof and windows exploded in satisfying fashion, but the front doors look like they could still be opened, and the body panels remained relatively unscathed. Even the battery (which appears to have been removed beforehand, presumably for safety) likely would’ve made it out un-crushed.

Commenters on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) pointed out that someone inside the Tesla might actually have survived the crushing—a claim that, while theoretical, highlights Tesla’s reputation for safety. Teslas are frequently ranked among the safest cars on the market, as long as they’re being driven and not, y’know, attempting to drive themselves. And now, unofficially, they may be among the most tank-resistant, too.

So, while the intention may have been to send Musk a message, some would argue Led By Donkeys has inadvertently launched a glowing PR moment for Tesla’s engineering team. Elon didn’t have to tweet a word, because the Tesla kinda tanked the tank. And as for Ken Turner? Somewhere, Grandpa Simpson is proud. This old man aimed to take on a political movement he argues looks similar to the one he faced down in the ’40s—with a little help from some tank treads. (Source)

 

[teriyakiburns]

Commenters on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) pointed out that someone inside the Tesla might actually have survived the crushing—a claim that, while theoretical, highlights Tesla’s reputation for safety.

What kind of fucking cope is this? The passenger cabin is completely flat. Tesla fanboys and hatefuckers are equally retarded.

 

[anklyscr]

Wait why are lbd against the new science saviour?
I thought the yogurt weaving twats would love an Ev.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Wait why are lbd against the new science saviour?

Rocket Man Bad, because autistic handwave and orange proximity.