We’ve known for years that the owner is a lying, creepy, out of touch dipshit and that it’s a very flawed car and the company will cut costs to save money on safety items, every time.
Electric vehicles with drive assist are awesome and are the future, but there are alternatives, especially if you have money, which a lot of Tesla customers do. And they’re not particularly well built; how many of these do you think will be on the road 20 years from now? And now we’ve seen how Elaine runs their companies, why the hell would anybody put their trust in their products?
If you’ve bought a Tesla in the last five or so years, you’re a damn goober in my eyes. That’s my hot take, prepared for being called poor and other sodium, tear filled comments from fools whose opinions don’t matter. You are the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Segway fan from the 2000s, have at me lol.
Update: The teary eyed, sweaty fingered responses to this are predictably hilarious. I’ve been called a guy that eats 4 pizzas a week in another old thread because of this, a cunt, a tool, a douche, a couple people spent their energy to tell me they don’t understand me spending my energy posting this, some people are telling me something about Tesla or Elaine living in my head rent free. All genuinely pathetic responses, so GG lol. Cheers.
I’d say it’s less about the source of the electricity, and more that electric cars are in no way positive for the environment. Between requiring extremely environmentally damaging extraction of a variety of rare minerals, their extreme weight which means they put out MORE microplastics from their tires than a normal car, and do MORE damage to road infrastructure than a normal car, and being inherently an individualistic method of transportation and thus inherently multiple HUNDREDS of times less efficient than mass public transit, these things are just cars for rich people to feel good about their consumption.
Funny thing, over 90% of the pollution caused by gasoline burning cars is from the TIRES, not the engines. So you’re saving less than 10% emissions, and polluting even further than a similarly sized passenger car would, in a way that is deceptively damaging. Microplastics are linked to cancer, infertility, and a vast array of other illnesses.
If you’re an environmentalist, buy a fucking electric bicycle and push your city to expand electrified mass transit. Don’t push for individualized cars as a solution.
I don’t agree with your first two paragraphs, but I 1000% agree with the last one.
Ultimately the vast VAST majority of ALL emissions come from sources outside of most people’s sphere of influence anyway. The Steel industry for example is dirty AF, and yet for some reason they get a hall pass