Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.
Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.
That is a design issue, but it is not a cosmetic design issue. Having never been in a Tesla, I don’t know if the fundamentally flawed interior door handle has any great impact on aesthetics. That said, Teslas, even cybertrucks, are very distinctive. Their esthetics have little bearing on the quality of the build (this is the entire philosophy behind knock-off brands).
So, while I don’t thing you’re wrong, that has no relevance to the OC’s statement.
Distinctively so dangerous they cannot be sold in EU.
Oh, not to worry. The most likely pickups for pedestrian and bicyclist fatality in the U.S. are all allowed, for now.
There’s only one reason the cybertruck is banned in the UK that isn’t easily fixed - the requirement for rounded edges that are thicker than the panels on the thing. Changing the indicator color, getting a special drivers license, and going through the import process are all surmountable hurdles if one wanted to, but not that first one. Fortunately, the F150, which kills far more pedestrians due to it’s populatlrity, is an easy substitute if driving vehicles that are dangerous for everyone around them is high on your criteria. Thankfully, the corners on that behemoth are rounded!
They dont have a door handle for… aesthetics. The cybertruck is a dangerous piece of metal because of… aesthetics.
It’s all part of the overall design of the cars. So I’d say it’s pretty relevant.
I have never seen the inside of a Tesla, yet I can recognize them from a block away. The door handle may be something their owners notice, but it isn’t what makes them recognizable to passersby. This is like saying people recognize iPhone because of the triple tap functionality. It’s unique, but isn’t what makes people recognize them at a glance.
There are perfectly good reasons to not like Teslas, safety and giving money to Elon among the top. Don’t dilute your message with irrelevance and inaccuracies.
It’s not irrelevant at all. I can recognize most cars from a distance, the tesla design isn’t special. The sharp edges of a cybertuck are an aesthetic choice that effects the car overall, if you have to make your car so fucking dangerous to stand out, you did something very wrong.
Design affects and is affected by all factors, a car looking a certain way is not an irrelevant factor to anything else. If you are ignoring how they interact, then any cosmetics are irrelevant themselves as at that point you no longer have a car, but a shell.