Elon Musk is now insisting that Telsa depart the EV market entirely.
We will happily shop elsewhere for EVs. As GM goes so goes the nation. @tamhas if you have any holdovers in your mind that are mixed with supply-side econ garbage flush them immediately. Those days are gone.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it was aware of a post by billionaire Elon Musk on the X social media platform musing about an absence of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Cmon now. The political agenda-driven posts using clickbait headlines out here on METAR are getting⊠silly.
Anti-Trump lashing out is just one possible theory, but what fun would that be to ignore it?
If one were to actually read the source article, one would see some OTHER interesting data about this one month snapshot of BEV sales in Europe. To the point:
Overall BEV sales declined 5%
VW.ID4 sales declined 40 (forty)%. THAT feels like the beginning of an extinction level event. But the political bashing of VW is so ten years ago.
Tesla sales declined an average of 16.5% - but still are 116% more than the next largest competitor, and still just about as large as the next 3 competitors combined.
Hate Musk, love Musk, I absolutely donât care but it shouldnât matter. MSN, that bastion of objective journalism (cough), picks out one number out of one MONTHâs report that they can twist to feed the anti-Trump meme - and this spawns a 14 post pile-on?
Yup. Especially when VW is threatening to close some of its European factories while Tesla is expanding Giga-Berlin.
And while the western legacy automakers are rapidly becoming irrelevant in China, the worldâs biggest car market, Tesla sales are now up year-to-year. Tesla is holding its own in China despite a fierce price war, a dated product line, and Osborne-ing from rumors of new Tesla models in 2025. https://www.investors.com/news/tesla-stock-buy-rating-china-sales-2024/
At the same time, it appears that Teslaâs US sales will be higher year-to-year in Q3 and Q4, due in large part to the successful launch of the most expensive version of the Cybertruck.
I am not following anything in this statement, so looking to see what you mean. What, and how, are Americans âturning to our economy for manufacturing with pride.â? I am an American and I have NO power to do anything with manufacturing. Also, the majority of all cars are parts from other countries. I believe most of them are also assembled elsewhere.
Where do you see pride in anything related to automobiles? These are now the lowest common denominator kind of thing. Designs are so bland and generic. Look at the color options for carsâŠgrey, gray, off black, white, off white, white mixed with black. (A bit facetious, but there are like two/three autos each year with an interesting color.)
I am either not understanding what is being said, or I very much disagree.
Hey Leap - youâre crossing the wires too. Bringing Musk up ex post facto (get the pun?) putting b.s. out on X (and then deleting it) has everything to do with @tjscott0 's obviously sneaky agenda-driven political posts out here on a supposedly ECONOMIC board.
Itâs yet another reason why intelligent, long time denizens of the Fool are going elsewhere. You guys are âmessingâ it up.
LOL And what agenda is that?
Perhaps I is a Russian/Chinese bot.
Be afraid very afraid!
I have noticed that long term denizens of this board intercst & Steve 203 continue to remain on the board.
And they have political content in some of their posts. Perhaps the rub is that my political content is âsneakyâ. RFLOL
A trick I learned from watching 1950s alien invasion movies: to make the aliens sound alien, they speak correct English. I could only be a real USian, the way I express myself.
I license you for one use of âno matter what I do, I get yipped atâ.
