‘I felt nothing but disgust’: Tesla owners vent their anger at Elon Musk
‘I felt nothing but disgust’: Tesla owners vent their anger at Elon Musk
I was debating posting this, but if you've not seen the bus-stop art yet ... you're missing out.
You mean this one?
Yeah, it's pretty funny.
That's the one. I've been cracking up over it for nearly a day. Literally made me reach out to a friend I've not talked with in months. We used to work together, and had a sign on the wall reading "0 DAYS" ... we kept it at that, as explaining zero days since an off-colour Holocaust reference to management wouldn't have been a fun time.
If this is offensive to you, you've not experienced the stress of a newsroom. The shit that we have to read and see so you don't have to ... the AP moves graphic art. We just don't run it.
Probably worth more as scrap.
Competitors should take them as trade ins at a slightly higher value than normal. Best marketing ever.
Feels like a good opportunity for someone to spin up a Tesla debadging service. Could strip the T off as a show of disrespect.
Schwede contemplated selling his car, but after racking up more than 60,000 miles on it, there was little value left in it.
That's a pretty steep devaluation curve. Do electric cars just wear out that fast? Or is this more of a hype-cycle rug pull situation?
Electric cars has less moving parts so it should wear out less as fast. Breaks are used less with regenitive breaking as well. Studies are showing batteries are degrading slower as tech advances, on average about 1.8℅ per year in 2024 from 2.3℅ in 2019. Battery lif e expectancy should be around 15-20 years.
The battery is still a big problem when selling on the used market because there's not really a way to see how much it has been abused, and it's also not really feasible to replace. If the previous owner abused their battery by constantly fast charging, and always charging it to 100% and driving till the battery is completely empty, then the battery can decrease much faster.
My manager has recently bought a used Tesla model 3, and the battery had been abused so much that he only has about 150km of actual range on a full battery. With the advertised range being close to 500km and the car being only 5 years old that seems to be a lot more than 2% per year. Even if you assume that the effective range when new was only half of the advertised range, then that battery has lost nearly 40% of its capacity in 5 years.