• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      But the only thing they have going for them is the electric side of things. If you put a combustion engine in a cybertruck it has nothing left.

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      21 days ago

      Yeah… I doubt that.

      There’s just no reason to.

      Why move backwards? Why give up the area where you have first mover advantage, making cars of the future, to instead try to compete with auto manufacturers who have been making that kind of car for the last eighty years. It’s a losing proposition. It’s not economical, it’s not smart.

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        21 days ago

        Well, for one thing, they’ve lost first mover advantage by squandering their lead. Every other company that makes an EV now makes one that works better, lasts longer and looks better than Tesla does. Besides which he’s pandering to crowd that largely believes that their cock and balls will shrivel up and fall off if they purchase an electric vehicle.

        Why move backwards? Why give up […]

        Why would you rebrand Twitter? You’ve got the largest and most recognizable website and logo on the internet, why would you want to scrap all that and start almost from scratch with a new name and nondescript logo that no one recognizes? First year marketing 101 tells you this is nearly the worst possible thing you can do with a recognized brand name.

        Musk is most well known for bad business decisions. More than anything else he’s done, he’s famous for his ability to rampage through a previously functional company and burn it completely to the ground. Pivoting Tesla into creating an ICE vehicle is completely on brand for him.

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          21 days ago

          Every other company that makes an EV now makes one that works better, lasts longer and looks better than Tesla does.

          Well be that as it may, somehow they still have more market share in the EV market than any of their competitors. They likely have almost as much market share as all of their competitors combined, (though I don’t have those numbers to confirm). So regardless of what you think of the quality of their cars, I wouldn’t say they’ve squandered their lead, not with the kind of sales they’re doing.

          Also, I mean, their brand is all about electricity, the company is named after Nicola Tesla.