Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fearmongering? Ralph Nader was writing about how unsafe motor vehicles were in 1965
"Your wish for child safety impedes my freedom to play suburban cowboy in my jacked up electric scythe. That's tyranny."
Well, it is?
Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
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Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#322Stop these awful huge heavy monstrosities, there is no place for them in the cities. Why are you doing this to us? Sell them all to warlords in Caucasus.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#323The weird thing I’ve seen is in almost all the online forums I visit, like Reddit, YouTube comment sections, parts of twitter, hacker news, the cybertruck is universally panned. Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented. Shows how much of a bubble the internet alone is. MKBHD got the ratio’s…
I feel Tesla is a US bubble. Despite all the disproportionate media this brand and it’s CEO gets, in my country I haven’t even seen one in the street yet, but I see EV Volvo, Renault, Fiat, BYD, GWM and others daily.
I'm in Australia and I see zillions of Teslas.
Thankfully our road laws won't allow the hideous monstrosity that is the Cybertruck though.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
Merica.
Not just Merica. People prioritize flashing their status via a large, expensive impractical cars than the greater good everywhere. Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe.
The market share for American car brands remains relatively low, typically below 5% in Europe. Notable American manufacturers like Ford and Tesla have struggled to capture a substantial portion of the European market compared to their Asian and European counterparts
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#325My girlfriend owns one so to share our experience, the cybertruck is an unreliable POS. She's had it three, four months now & we have had it in the shop for suspension repair, an ECU computer which fried itself at a charging station (2k), a coolant leak part replacement from the cyberbeast rear engine (1400), the passenger window falling inside the door after the wire used in the gear window retraction snapped or tan…
I’m genuinely curious, on a 4-month old vehicle, why weren’t the three specific repairs and costs you list be covered under warranty?
Isn't that like asking if Boeings flights aren't covered by life insurance?
Car insurance companies know the costs, and they have open listings of the car brands. They have literally all incentives in play to stay truthful. Compared to whatever PR we are force-fed a jour.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe. Not in the part of Europe I'm in. I can't recall the last time I've seen an American car here in the streets of Vienna. Also: Don't large American SUVs consume a lot of petrol? Considering the gas prices I'd assume not many people can/want to afford them.
Vienna isn't representative for all of Europe. Not even for the rest of Austria. Go to the other more car centric cities and you'll see.
Can you name a single European city that is positively teeming with large American SUVs?
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Yet when I drove a cybertruck, the number of onlookers who approached me inquiring about the car with excitement is unmatched with even a Lamborghini that I once rented". Your sampling method is flawed. Only Cybertruck fans are approaching you. Most people aren't going to come up and tell you they think your car is ugly.
Right, it’s kind of known as the incel mobile I think by most people. In the same way when you see a MAGA hat on the street, you already know a lot about the person before they a a single word and you do your best to avoid them but other people with MAGA hats will give each other the wink and nod. In my experience that’s the closest thing I could describe to the cyber truck experience and how most people look at it.
Nobody knows what an incel is, other than the terminally online.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#328My girlfriend owns one so to share our experience, the cybertruck is an unreliable POS. She's had it three, four months now & we have had it in the shop for suspension repair, an ECU computer which fried itself at a charging station (2k), a coolant leak part replacement from the cyberbeast rear engine (1400), the passenger window falling inside the door after the wire used in the gear window retraction snapped or tan…
I’m genuinely curious, on a 4-month old vehicle, why weren’t the three specific repairs and costs you list be covered under warranty?
All of the aforementioned things are 100% covered by warranty. The GPs comment is entirely made up, LARPing for internet points.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#329Can you get insurance for them?
Every single Cybertruck on the road has insurance. You cannot take delivery without insurance.
Re: Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US
#330There was a Cybertruck at the Paris Games Week (there was a Tesla corner in the con for some reason). That was my first time seeing one in person. The most striking thing was how tall it was. Half the kids attending the PGW were smaller than its front bumper. I hope these things never, ever get allowed in France.
Even if it were allowed on the roads of France, with its 4 tons, you would have to pass the specific driver license C1 [1], because over the 3.5 tons limit of a classical driver license B. More than that, the C1 must be renewed every 5 years at least.
[1] : https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F31121