People are getting tired of Musk and are stopping to buy Teslas

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https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-2024-drop-electric-vehicles-69af17c4e606625694af8293db25b2f3

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Tesla EVs ranked among the worst in annual reliability survey by Consumer Reports

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/tesla-evs-ranked-among-worst-annual-reliability-survey-consumer-reports

They also have a terrible resale value

The CEO at the company where I work, mentioned in a meeting, that EV sales have declined.
I corrected him by saying that EV sales have actually gone up, only Tesla has dropped.
That is the RW myth.

They claw the shit out of these vehicles mistaking them for garbage dumpsters.

https://www.tiktok.com/@unique.planet/video/7409334497151388960?lang=en

Now that prices are coming down and range is increasing our next car could very well be electric, there's plenty of good looking offerings out there. But no way in hell would I buy a Tesla.

It's a 2019 and it had 45k on the odometer. Looked brand new. Paid $20K total with tax and tags. I have driven it for 15 months and have used about $150 worth of gas in that time. It is a hybrid sort of. I drive it around town on electric and have never needed to use gas except when going out of town for some distance. Fifty eight miles per charge gets me anywhere I want to go in town.

I discussed it here, with respect to a scientific paper demonstrating that an electric car on my grid has a worse climate profile than a gasoline car: A paper addressing the idea that electric cars are "green."

A graphic from that post with the caption in the original paper:

All of this crap is based on the lie people like to tell themselves that electricity is "green." It isn't. It's overwhelmingly produced by the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels with a huge thermodynamic penalty. All the stupid photographs of wilderness industrialized to make inefficient solar and wind power plants, lipstick on the fossil fuel pig, will not make electricity "green." They will only make things worse faster, which they are effectively doing.

The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa: Yet Another Update 12/08/2024

Despite understanding the enormous ethical consequences of lithium batteries as expressed in cobalt slavery I drive a hybrid car, at best a moral compromise of a type. From a thermodynamic sense, they involve exergy recovery from the fossil fuel energy, chiefly braking and idling that would be rejected to the environment in an ordinary ICE powered car. The 2024 Toyota Camry hybrid I drive can achieve, with judicious use of cruise control and doing the speed limit as often as possible, greater than the rated 51 mpg, more typically 55+ mpg. That doesn't make me or my car "green." It just makes us less filthy, again, a moral compromise I lack the courage to suspend.

It is unsurprising to me that Elon Musk, graduate of Apartheid, has managed to exploit ignorance and wishful thinking to engineer the downfall of the United States. It is a demonstration of how advertising and credulity can lead to disaster, in this case, to repeat, the probable fall of the United States.

The progressives who made the car into a cult are on the wrong side now.
And those garbage dumpster trucks- holy crap are they ugly. Every time I see one parked somewhere someone is standing staring at it. I’ve stood and stared at it.

Those awful sharp edges. For some reason it makes me think of the sharp edge of the can that cuts your finger. Ugly, dangerous, and useless.

...where the made the exterior out of N-304 stainless which doesn't do well with chlorides.
Half the country puts chlorides on the ground in the winter.
Some of those regions, plus more, live near salt water spray.
It leaches nickel & chromium from the matrix. This causes micro & nano cracking compromising tensile strength.
And it exposes more iron to oxidation, aka rust.
Since chromium chloride is purple, nickel chloride is green, & iron oxide is orange, I think a lot of these tryck will have an ugly brown patina in a few years.

Most sinks are made of 18-0, which is just like 304, but no nickel.
Because there is no nickel, it's a little less prone to stress corrosion cracking.
A lot of flatware is made from that too.
It's readily available, so it's not a cost thing.
I think it would have better to use aluminum and paint the thing!

is the door seam, where you can see fingerprints like you do on a stainless range top or an over-used cell phone screen

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