Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017

Post by wilg » Tue, Sep 09, 2025, 7:50 AM UTC

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johnnyanmac wrote: post #66

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I know the Cybertruck as a "release" is stretching it, but it technically did release. Prematurely, 100%. But it's out there. The QC on the Cybertruck pretty much shows why they lost their brand power over the years, though. Even when ignoring the politics.

I’m waiting for owners to discover water damage in the equipment under the hood liner: Cybertruck’s lack a scuttle/cowl/gutter [0] to collect and divert water from the bottom of the windshield. Basically every car ever has one, except the Cybertruck. This isn’t a QC problem — it’s just poor design. [0] I’m not sure anyone agrees what it’s called.

Post by archagon » Tue, Sep 09, 2025, 7:59 AM UTC

wilg wrote: post #132

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The whole EV market is growing and everyone is racing to buy one before incentives run out. The article is framed as a hit piece and even has political statements in it. But here is an exact quote from the article: "Sales of new EVs jumped more than 24% month over month in July to 128,268, according to the Cox data, driven by the looming end of a $7,500 tax credit for EVs and attractive deals. Tesla saw sales rise 7%…

"even has political statements in it" is a wild take. It would be journalistic malpractice to not mention the political context. If your CEO bribes voters to help elect a traitorous pedophile and then personally (and illegally) cuts aid funding directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and all of that hurts business, that's something you have to include for context! That's some crazy stuff!

Post by cedilla » Tue, Sep 09, 2025, 8:16 AM UTC

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Honestly I really think the winning move for the 80% of the market that isnt already in an electric is "This is your current car, but electric".

Electric does make it pretty important that the software is unusually good for a car, though, because the software has to compensate for non-ubiquitous charging infra. Tesla does this very well. There are some quirks around charge scheduling and charge limiting that Tesla does really well too. It's not rocket science but software in most "current cars" is terrible .

Post by timcobb » Tue, Sep 09, 2025, 8:50 AM UTC

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If you follow up on the story, Tesla was cleared of all wrong doing after an investigation. Tesla did sell that number of vehicles, they just were very behind on filing for the incentives, but still within the program guidelines. Once the government announced that the incentives were running low, they filed all of their backlog at once. I love to hate on Elon as much as the next person, but everything was above board…

I think there's something else going on there, although yes, that was the statement. > Tesla’s head of sales for Canada, emphasized in a March 28 letter that the filings followed program guidelines, which allowed post-delivery submissions despite recommendations for pre-delivery assessments. but this alludes to something more: > Despite the clearance, Tesla will still be excluded from future iZEV programs Huh. Why, I…

Post by tim333 » Tue, Sep 09, 2025, 8:53 AM UTC

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I low key have a conspiracy theory that the "1 trillion dollar pay package" is just Tesla PR fluff - smoke and mirrors to steal attention away from the poorly performing cybertruck sales and falling stock. If they spin news with dramatic flair highlighting Musk’s bonkers pay package it's a distraction from Tesla’s more immediate and tangible troubles, political alienation of their buyers and ongoing regulatory and ma…

Seems counterintuitive, no? The first thing I thought of when I saw that pay package being floated was the current state that Tesla is in. That's the primary reason such a package seems so fucking bonkers.