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Tesla doesn’t have a PR team and their Berlin factory was recently shutdown because they forgot to pay their water bill. And now this policy is apparently pulle

Tesla doesn’t have a PR team and their Berlin factory was recently shutdown because they forgot to pay their water bill. And now this policy is apparently pulled with no notification? What is going on with the management there?

tachyonbeam 6y ago
Tesla got a new water supply contract with a different company, and the Berlin factory construction was never stopped at any point. There's video evidence to prove it.
- foepys 6y ago
  How is it FUD when the water supplier itself said that Tesla didn't pay its bills and thus turned off the water? https://m.dw.com/en/germany-water-turned-off-at-tesla-gigafactory-over-unpaid-bills/a-55292250 https://m.dw.com/en/germany-water-turned-off-at-tesla-gigafa... What's the name of the new water supply company? The agreement they signed a few days ago was with the same supplier that just turned off the water. What most likely happened was that Tesla quickly paid their bills and got the water running again and are spinning this to hide their embarrassment. The "bigger line" they are talking about is the permanent underground line they got built and can finally use. Before that they used temporary overground lines.
  - tachyonbeam 6y ago
    It's possible that someone somewhere made a mistake and the bill never made it to where it should go. They were working on getting a larger water pipeline installed AFAIK. The factory construction wasn't stopped because of this though. People film the Berlin site with drones daily.
    - foepys 6y ago
      The water supplier said they sent multiple reminders and waited 14 days after the last reminder before turning it off. This is standard procedure in Germany.
    - nemo44x 6y ago
      They are a 400 billion dollar corporation. Not a ma and pa bakery in town. Again, what’s going on with the management?
    - londons_explore 6y ago
      Anyone who has sent a bill to a company knows it's very very very hard to get some companies to pay bills on time (or at all).
      - Gibbon1 6y ago
        It's always been funny, not ha ha funny, how much society savages poor people for missing a payment. And no one talks about how large companies drag out payments and no one cares. Wealthy people often up and refuse to pay.
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jayd16 6y ago
Tesla has its problems but these are mostly just click bait stories. The PR team is just under some "community outreach" team or such thing instead. Logistical problem at a construction site. So what? Continued quality issues and pulling the return policy are the real stories.
AtlasBarfed 6y ago
What's going on: - Tesla's stock is astronomically high, garnering mainstream attention, shorters, and momentum investors that want to manipulate the media - Tesla headlines garner massive click rates and are essentially what keeps a large number of web sites' lights on, so web sites up the dramatics on any Tesla story - Elon Musk is polarizing, generating a lot of drama - very big entrenched interests are very very threatened by Tesla and EV/batteries/green power, so they have an incentive to astroturf and overdramatize negative stories - Tesla has quality issues from pushing deliveries and production too far over the quality threshold, giving plenty of fodder to the astroturfers Seriously, look at the brigade downvoting going on in the comments on this story. It is very unusual, where comments with outright cursing and expletives are untouched, but pro-Tesla responses with linked articles are being massively downvoted.

tachyonbeam 6y ago

Tesla got a new water supply contract with a different company, and the Berlin factory construction was never stopped at any point. There's video evidence to prove it.

foepys 6y ago
How is it FUD when the water supplier itself said that Tesla didn't pay its bills and thus turned off the water? https://m.dw.com/en/germany-water-turned-off-at-tesla-gigafactory-over-unpaid-bills/a-55292250 https://m.dw.com/en/germany-water-turned-off-at-tesla-gigafa... What's the name of the new water supply company? The agreement they signed a few days ago was with the same supplier that just turned off the water. What most likely happened was that Tesla quickly paid their bills and got the water running again and are spinning this to hide their embarrassment. The "bigger line" they are talking about is the permanent underground line they got built and can finally use. Before that they used temporary overground lines.
- tachyonbeam 6y ago
  It's possible that someone somewhere made a mistake and the bill never made it to where it should go. They were working on getting a larger water pipeline installed AFAIK. The factory construction wasn't stopped because of this though. People film the Berlin site with drones daily.
  - foepys 6y ago
    The water supplier said they sent multiple reminders and waited 14 days after the last reminder before turning it off. This is standard procedure in Germany.
  - nemo44x 6y ago
    They are a 400 billion dollar corporation. Not a ma and pa bakery in town. Again, what’s going on with the management?
  - londons_explore 6y ago
    Anyone who has sent a bill to a company knows it's very very very hard to get some companies to pay bills on time (or at all).
    - Gibbon1 6y ago
      It's always been funny, not ha ha funny, how much society savages poor people for missing a payment. And no one talks about how large companies drag out payments and no one cares. Wealthy people often up and refuse to pay.
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jayd16 6y ago

Tesla has its problems but these are mostly just click bait stories. The PR team is just under some "community outreach" team or such thing instead. Logistical problem at a construction site. So what? Continued quality issues and pulling the return policy are the real stories.

AtlasBarfed 6y ago

What's going on: - Tesla's stock is astronomically high, garnering mainstream attention, shorters, and momentum investors that want to manipulate the media - Tesla headlines garner massive click rates and are essentially what keeps a large number of web sites' lights on, so web sites up the dramatics on any Tesla story - Elon Musk is polarizing, generating a lot of drama - very big entrenched interests are very very threatened by Tesla and EV/batteries/green power, so they have an incentive to astroturf and overdramatize negative stories - Tesla has quality issues from pushing deliveries and production too far over the quality threshold, giving plenty of fodder to the astroturfers Seriously, look at the brigade downvoting going on in the comments on this story. It is very unusual, where comments with outright cursing and expletives are untouched, but pro-Tesla responses with linked articles are being massively downvoted.