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Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs (www.cnbc.com)

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Currently only proper options for EV is either Tesla, Korean EV's (KIA, Hyundai) or Chinese. European and japanese EV's are imo shit at the moment. Teslas I will avoid like plague, due to Nazis. KIA's and Hyundai's are so hard to get, so I am really considering getting BYD, Polestar or XPeng.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why's that? I drove a Cupra Born last week, pretty decent imo. I also drove a VW ID3 and a BMW i3. So far the only European EV I didn't like was the Audi e-tron. I haven't driven a Korean or Chinese EV yet, so I can't really compare. What do you prefer about them?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eh, ID7 and A6 are getting there. BMW i4 ain't bad either.

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I think it also has to do with the economy, not just nazi salutes. Its a bad job market, people dont have money, so luxary cars are not going to be attractive.

Also there is hardly any reason to buy a Tesla... Volvo recharge and others are better cars, made by actual car companies with a good reputation for quality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Telsa used to be a status symbol, and sexy.

But then their chief chap couldn't seem to publicly pronounce the popular phrase "Nazi's suck and I wish to have nothing to do with them".

Now Telsa is an anti-status symbol.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Idk why are you being downvoted. Musk being a nazi is the last of the problems for Tesla. They had being outcompete by BYD in every measure.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it definitely has to do when musk being a nazi.

Tesla used to be the brand, the good quality car, the one that you want to get.

(at least that was how the public saw it, car affictionados don't count)

now it's just cringe

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And in the US we just block foreign options because it is gov policy to artificially support specific corporations.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago (6 children)

the country of free market capitalism...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I think that's the invisible hand of the market. The visible part is the products you don't get to have.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I own BYD and it is a great car. Very pleased with it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hitler was "incendiary" and "political" but I think there's a four-letter word so much better, so much more concise, that this wording is actual disinformation.

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