Someone toss his ass in prison already!
And who just holed that ship below the waterline?
It’s a single car company. World economy doesn’t depend on Tesla’s success. Not even the American economy. If Tesla dies, it’s just a canary in the coalmine for much, much bigger economic problems. Like, you know, how they put dipshits in the White House, or something. So it’s kind of interesting that Elon has a moment of lucidity here, because no one around him seems to realise how screwed they are.
Reread that sentence there
“If I drive us all off a cliff, I won’t be using my eject button”
Even in his expressed delusions, he continues lying to everyone else
a rat is suppose to flee a sinking ship, not sink with it. maybe if you wernt on drugs 100% of the time.
The rat is trying to convince us it is the captain.
Fuck off and die Elon.
Just gotta love the sudden change in demeanor in the pictures of articles regarding him.
Destroying the country? Laughs and jumps. Losing everything he “worked” for? Serious face.
Bye Elon get out of here.
I was living under the idea that the Load bearing snake oil salesman of the American Economy was Sam Altman.
Elon.
If you are on a ship… and there is some troublesome bullshit cargo that keeps throwing off the balance of the ship, in a storm, and that cargo is the property of an idiot who keeps trying to erect his own sail, despite have no clue what he is doing, no idea how sailing works…
You throw said dumbass and his bullshit overboard, so the ship and everyone else survives.
… Then, you mutiny against the idiot captain whos been bought and paid for by the other idiot who is currently fish food.
At least the converse isn’t necessarily true
It’s because the company is fully subsidized by carbon credits and government funding. The crazy brand valuation is based on fully autonomous driving and person less cabs which will never happen at Tesla.
a.k.a government handouts
And vibes, don’t forget how the traders love their vibes!
Is that his first concern from said realization? Goddammit.
Yes, that is right after where he put his pills. 🤡
Batshit druggie loser says some fucked up bullshit?
How odd
At this point, it’s pretty obvious his entire goal with DOGE was to dismantle federal agencies that were either investigating him in some way, or were trying to regulate his companies. So, I guess this means Tesla can’t survive without him actively gaming the system in his favor.
Translation : “If I can’t keep stealing US taxpayers funds and funnel them into my companies, they won’t be able to exist on their own merit.”
That’s surprisingly modest of him, I’d have thought he would have put it the other way around.
He’s not going to get any help from China.
Yeah they’ll probably just nationalize his factory over there at some point and hand it to BYD along with all of the software and IP they can snap up from any servers and devices that are in-country
From what I hear BYD is better than Tesla at this point. I think we’ve come to the time where China is reaching parity with us tech. I mean what do we have that they don’t?
It’s way past parity.
It is very, VERY far from being that simple. They are several decades behind the US and EU in jet turbine technology, for instance. And their chip foundries are definitely not considered bleeding edge. You have to go to SK and Taiwan for that. And part of Taiwan’s publicized defense policy is “we will melt our chip foundries to slag if the PRC invades”. Them being basically the best in the world at chip fabrication was a strategic investment (in a very literal geopolitical sense) that they began in the 70s and 80s.
Taiwan specializes in microchips, and China having to order chips from them isn’t a big deal … in terms of building/assembling an electric car.
The question was “what do we have that they don’t” and the answer is “it’s complicated, but the list is not short”
“Better” doesn’t tell the whole story. There are hundreds if not thousands of different technologies involved in making an electric vehicle, from material selection for the frame to batteries to all the different components, software, conforming, etc. BYD cars may be overall superior to Tesla cars (I don’t know if they are, both are above my budget) but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t two or three hundred little things that Tesla cars still do better.
The irony being, I trust the BYD vehicles more than I do Tesla to hold up. Chinese quality =/= crap quality anymore. They’ve done a massive manufacturing speedrun from zero to competitive in less than 20 years.
And Tesla’s been a constant pain of manufacturing blunders and recalls and dumb designs that break in stupid ways or are outright dangerous, even if they had EV tech way ahead of everyone else for the first 15 years of EVs being on the road.
Of course, shoddy knockoff products do exist still, but BYD and Xiaomi are not that.
BYD still isn’t as profitable on their EVs as well. They make most of their money on the PHEVs.
Obviously this decline in sales has an impact on that, but that’s a political/brand damage/Elon thing, not Tesla’s ability to make EVs that are more profitable.
He probably meant to.
