Toxic Tesla

[Katheryne Helendale]

I'm not sure I'd call working for a Nazi a "dream job."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tesla starts accepting Cybertruck trade-ins, confirms insane depreciation

Tesla has started accepting Cybertruck trade-ins, something that wasn’t the case more than a year after deliveries of the electric...

electrek.co

 

[Soen Eber]

Wait a minute ... they made this FOR SURVIVALISTS? With THAT build quality and ground clearance?

 

[Cristiano]

This is entertaining:


Spoiler: Tesla has dropped on the list of top 100 American businesses by reputation, going from # 8 in 2021 to 95th now lol. Space X has plummeted as well. They dropped from 48th to 84th. I love this for them

 

[Casey Pelous]

Wait a minute ... they made this FOR SURVIVALISTS? With THAT build quality and ground clearance?

I believe that's what B school graduates call "marketing." You might recognize the aroma if you have spent time with horses.

 

[detrius]

 

[detrius]

Wait a minute ... they made this FOR SURVIVALISTS? With THAT build quality and ground clearance?

The aluminium frame makes it about as tough and rugged as a bodybuilder with glass bone disease.

 

[Free]

Commentary...

Death of a Cybertruck Salesman: How Trump Killed Tesla

Schadenfreude is a bargain at $5.60 per mile.

www.thebulwark.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Commentary...

Death of a Cybertruck Salesman: How Trump Killed Tesla

Schadenfreude is a bargain at $5.60 per mile.

www.thebulwark.com

Damn paywall!

 

[Free]

Damn paywall!

Uhm, hmm. The paywall appears to be open (to just me?) on that piece. But...

Death of a Cybertruck Salesman: How Trump Killed Tesla (archive.today)

 

[Essence Lumin]

Uhm, hmm. The paywall appears to be open (to just me?) on that piece. But...

Death of a Cybertruck Salesman: How Trump Killed Tesla (archive.today)

It's still paywalled for me. After the first bit, "Keep reading after a 7 day trial" blah blah.

 

[Free]

It's still paywalled for me. After the first bit, "Keep reading after a 7 day trial" blah blah.

Well. The Bulwark is a bunch of anti-Trumpers, but still continue to identify as Republican. So forget them.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Tesla's sales fall 87% in Quebec as its market gets wiped out | Electrek

Tesla’s sales have fallen 87% in Quebec in the first quarter 2025 compared to the same period last year.

The critical Canadian market has been wiped out, and Tesla is no longer importing new vehicles.

Quebec is the leading EV market in Canada, with the highest adoption rate of new electric vehicles.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tesla troubles worsen in Europe as sales slide

Electric vehicle maker reports drop in key markets amid mounting pressure from Chinese and European competitors

www.thetimes.com

Evernote Link

 

[Free]

This lawsuit was inevitable.

French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol

A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with…

www.france24.com

Around 10 French clients with leases on Teslas are suing the US carmaker, run by Elon Musk, because they consider the vehicles to be "extreme-right" symbols, the law firm representing them said on Wednesday.

They feel they suffered "direct and concrete" damage from the way Teslas are now associated with "Elon Musk's actions", the GKA law firm said.

They are demanding the Paris commercial court order their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs reimbursed, it said in a statement, signed by lawyers Patrick Klugman and Ivan Terel.

 

[Beebo Brink]

‘Defectively designed’ Cybertruck burned so hot in crash that the driver’s bones literally disintegrated: lawsuit | The Independent

 

[Free]

Another brick - or 2 - in Leon's wall.

Tesla plans to shut down Model Y and Cybertruck production over the week of July 4

The production pause would be the automaker's third such shutdown in the past 12 months.

www.businessinsider.com

Tesla plans to pause production on Cybertruck and Model Y lines for a week at its Austin factory, Business Insider has learned. It would be at least the third such shutdown in a year.

In a meeting earlier this month with workers, the company said the shutdown would begin the week of June 30, and production would resume the following week, according to a person familiar with the matter. During the pause, employees can use paid time off or come in for voluntary training and cleaning.

The pause would enable the automaker to perform maintenance on production lines, the company told workers.

I'm sure they believed it, too. Meanwhile, how about all those robotaxi sightings?

 

[Free]

All is well! The team is merely rearranging the deck chairs for your comfort! Ignore all the water splashing about! All is extremely good and fine and well!

As Tesla Crumbles, Elon Musk Just Fired One of His Top Supporters at the Company

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired the automaker's vice president of manufacturing and operations Omead Fashar, Forbes reports, amid plummeting sales and public backlash against the company.

Fashar was one of Musk's closest confidants and a powerful executive at the company, according to Bloomberg, which reported that Fashar had departed but didn't say that Musk was behind the personnel change. The exact reason for his departure isn't clear, although one can make an educated guess based on the broader turmoil at Tesla.

Fashar was in charge of a team of more than a half-dozen high level employees, CNBC noted while corroborating that Musk was behind the sacking. He joined Tesla in 2017 as an engineer, and was promoted to his position last October to oversee sales and manufacturing in North America and Europe — the two markets where consumer backlash in response to Musk's association with the Trump administration has been the hardest felt.

 

[Beebo Brink]

That team should just quit en masse.