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Genuine question as someone not from the US, who’s the average new Tesla owner these days? Electric cars were seen as a leftist thing a few years back. If (aga
by Xenoamorphous 1y ago
Genuine question as someone not from the US, who’s the average new Tesla owner these days?
Electric cars were seen as a leftist thing a few years back. If (again, as a non American) you asked me what the average car of a right wing American was, I’d say a ginormous pick up truck with a V8 ICE engine or something like that. Did that kind of person really start buying Teslas due to Musk’s close ties with the current US administration? I can’t see that. I also can’t see leftist American people buying Teslas due to environmental reasons alone despite of Musk either. So who’s buying those cars?
Purely anecdotical but I know at least one person who was going to buy a Tesla and he didn’t do it purely because of Musk. Also, the only time I got inside a Tesla was in a Cabify that took me to the airport (model 3), smooth ride but the interior was that of a cheap car from 10 years ago.
- cyberax 1y ago> Genuine question as someone not from the US, who’s the average new Tesla owner these days? Just regular average people. EVs are just better than ICE cars, as long as you have charging infrastructure. And Tesla has it.
- natch 1y agoIt’s the overlap on the Venn diagram of people who have driven one and people who think for themselves.
- IT4MD 1y agoThat's the question, isn't it? Tesla made sure the Left hated them due to Nazi garbage from the CEO, the Right is full of coal-rolling clowns, so I have no idea who's buying them.
- myvoiceismypass 1y agoThe mistake is assuming that half the country is "the left" and half the country is "the right"
- IT4MD 1y agoYou're right. A large swath of people are apathetic, which basically makes them complicit with the current state of things. I also don't count libertarians, because they are not serious people.