Just like Reddit said, look at how much people hate this thing. It’s all over for you, Joe Tesla!

Can’t wait for real car companies to start making EVs.

They’re going to keep fucking around until battery tech gets legitimately cheap. At that point they’ll go all in and release stuff like an affordable Honda-e with high range.

Hope so. I’d like a smaller EV but can’t stand the look of Minis.

https://fordauthority.com/2023/03/small-group-of-ford-dealers-drop-out-of-ev-sales-program/

So there were 1,920 that initially signed up out of 2,968 Ford dealerships (~65%). 29 dropped out shortly after, leaving 1,891. Minus another 400 now leaves 1491, meaning 50% of Ford dealerships are not participating in the program.

I was walking down the street the other day, seething with rage over Elon Musk, as always. I couldn’t contain my facial twitches and mutterings to myself when I happened upon a young woman who asked me if something was wrong.

I began the way I started every conversation, “Oh, Elon Musk, you say? Fuck him! Fuck that motherfucker.”

“…who?”

I continued on, the way a Redditor like me always does. “Did you know his father owned an emerald mine? Or that he wasn’t even one of the original founders of one of the companies he now runs? Outrageous.” The very idea that someone could lead a company to greater success than the people who created it nearly made me shit my pants in sheer fury.

She kept her eyes on me while her head drew back. ”Oh, uh, yeah. I get a little bit jealous, too, when one of my friends does well for themselves.”

“Oh, I never met the guy. I just post on the Internet every day about how angry he makes me. The way he forces me to read everything he posts on Twitter…it’s intolerable. I wish our benevolent car dealerships and oil companies would squash him like a bug already.”

“Riiiight.” She stepped away slowly at first before taking off into a sprint. That Felon Muskrat. His cult had gotten to another innocent person with their brainwashing and propaganda.

The Internet was really going to hear about it today.

Did they mention people who drive manual have bigger dicks?

Tim Bush, a Seoul-based battery analyst for UBS, said legacy carmakers Ford and GM bear the greatest responsibility for the slump in demand.

Oh schnap, oh schnap.

“LG is relatively better positioned because they’re reprioritising investment towards Hyundai and Tesla, which are making vehicles that actually people want to buy and doing so profitably,” said Bush.

Tell it, sister.

This is what happens when you have a grifter nepo baby like Akihabara Toyoda running the company. “Self-charging hybrid” vehicles? Rigging crash tests? The guy just can’t stop lying. He tricked people into buying millions of dollars of scam car bundles and now they can only make 10k solid state batteries?