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The competition is getting better and Musk is a very polarizing individual. None of this surprises me.
by fullstop 2y ago
The competition is getting better and Musk is a very polarizing individual. None of this surprises me.
- code_for_monkey 2y agoMusk tied himself so thoroughly to the brand and now hes tanking and taking the brand down with it.
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoI'm in Europe, and I've seen Teslas with "bought it before he went crazy" stickers. I think the Venn diagram of people who want to buy electric cars, and people who dislike Musk's recent behavior, has a pretty big intersection. And yeah, the competition is getting much better. I'm seeing a lot of Polestar cars recently, and even a lowly Fiat 500e now advertises 460km range.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoSome of the BMW electrics are amazing. I think they have been doing electric longer than Tesla.
- bdamm 2y agoTrue, but the i3 is kind of awful. So they've been doing it longer, but not necessarily better.
- drakonka 2y agoI'm not really a car person but finding Teslas looking quite dated compared to other options, especially Polestar, in the roads these days. At one point you saw a Tesla and it had some kind of 'cool' factor by both reputation and aesthetics, but Musk has ruined the reputation and time + competition has ruined the aesthetics.
- gazchop 2y agoI'd buy a Polestar 2 if I had somewhere to charge it. I hired a few over the last couple of years. Basically an electric Volvo. Everything just worked and they aren't particularly expensive.
- ddalex 2y agoGiven that Musk is actively working to undermine UE (L'Union européenne, EU in English, sorry for confusion), you'd have to be some kind of idiot to support him by buying a Tesla if you live in Europe.
- calciphus 2y agoNot arguing, but what is UE in this context?
- airstrike 2y agoEU in other languages
- vimy 2y agoFrench for EU.
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- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoIt is Union of Europe, more commonly "EU" in English.
- drysine 2y agoL'Union européenne
- optimalsolver 2y agoUropian Eunion
- throw_a_grenade 2y agoUnia Europejska in Polish?
- tirant 2y agoActually I think Musk is doing the opposite: Europe has since many years suffered with high bureaucracy, strict regulations and in general low innovation levels. Musk has been very vocal about those issues in Europe. He might be right or wrong, but questioning European levels of bureaucracy and regulations is not undermining EU, it’s going to help it.
- pupppet 2y agoThe one drawback of civil discourse is feeling the need to use diplomatic language, even when it's not deserved. "Polarizing" is a term too good for Musk.
- diegoholiveira 2y agoChina is doing pretty well on EV.