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TokyoLiving
The Tesla that catches fire, no thanks.
Pffff... Still the worst CEO of 2022, Elonal Clown, looool !!..
Hervé L'Eisa
Isn't it great that there are more and more electric cars adding more strain to hobbled power grids?
Gonna have to tow around a power generator (gasoline or diesel ) to charge up the EV batteries...
Joemusic1980
They sold 405,000 cars last quarter (it was on NPR). It’s a great removing the need for foreign oil and saving the planet.
Haters going to hate!!!!
Kingofhearts
You still oil or gas or coal to make electricity to charge the battery that runs the car.
Blacklabel
Well look at that!
the company is actually doing great.
Nibek32
Tesla fell far below their sales targets for 2022. The combination of a backlash against Tesla and all the new EV coming into the market is bad news for Tesla.
They may survive, but will just play a small role in the car market. Most EV buyers lean liberal and prefer a car without all the toxic political right wing conspiracy garbage.
Blacklabel
From center leftist Elon Musk?
GBR48
Expected US vehicle sales in 2022 were over 13 million units. Tesla did well in the circumstances and it isn't doing badly, given the continued relatively high cost of its EVs. If you want a faster transition to EVs, you need the modern EV equivalent of the low cost Model T Ford, and it is more likely to come from Japan, China, South Korea or India. Japan should be leading the way here with an electric Kei car. We don't need automated vehicles of extra tech, we need lower priced models.
painkiller
But Musk has promised to start producing the long-awaited Cybertruck electric pickup this year. The company also has started delivering its electric semis.
This will be huge.
Another Musk success.
Elvis is here
Lol. Such forecasts are never accurate. Anyone with an iota of historical knowledge of...
Lol.
mrtinjp
Tesla fell far below their sales targets for 2022. The combination of a backlash against Tesla and all the new EV coming into the market is bad news for Tesla.
They may survive, but will just play a small role in the car market. Most EV buyers lean liberal and prefer a car without all the toxic political right wing conspiracy garbage
Standard RL styled dis-info narrative, not a single fact.
lincolnman
And who bought those 1.3 million? Lower-educated, poor, climate change-denying MAGA-diehards?
Don't think so...the state No.1 in Tesla sales - California...
And Elon's crazed far-right rantings play real well with that crowd...
Besides losing $200 BILLION - the most in history, he has alienated the group most likely to purchase a Tesla...
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/musk-loses-more-money-than-anyone-else-ever-in-200-billion-bloodbath/news-story/b045c5216df37b65633806923ea1c17a
Business genius? He's as big a Loser as Trump...
Nemo
Such a great success that it missed its sales targets and Twitter is being sued for welching on its rent payments.
Cause that’s how real business professionals roll….
Numan
Ford sold over 10x that many vehicles yet the stock for Ford is 1/10 the price of Tesla stock. Can you say “overvalued”?
So there is 1.3 million Tesla owners sitting around while their cars charge up, getting a second mortgage on their house to buy a new battery, sitting in the snow because the battery didn’t keep it’s charge long enough, standing on the side of the road as their car burns up. Wow folks really smart move! Once again the cult of personality has convinced gullible people to buy something totally unproven to be a solid choice. Enjoy!
Even Musk knows that 50% year over year growth rates is only applicable to successful startups... not big established major corporations facing competition like they never saw before.
Is Tesla as a world conquering auto company? Not by sales growth! Tesla sales growth is slowing dramatically. From almost 90% YOY in 2022 to now only 40% YOY in 2023. What next year 20%? LOL at this rate Tesla will forever remain a minnow among auto giants. Meanwhile, BYD is blowing away Tesla with 300% YOY growth! BYD is the EV champ of the world.
That, coupled with Musk's behavior after his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, help, bumping Musk out of the top spot for the world's wealthiest person, according to Forbes. The company's stock decline for the year, its worst ever, was more than triple the drop in the S&P 500, which was down 19.4%.
REMEMBER: Tesla also said that 1.3 million of them would not start in the cold weather! You also need to pay about $20,000 in a few years to replace the battery like your iphone!
Blacklabel
Musk simply allows the truth to come out on Twitter.
and suddenly he is a far right super villain, his company sucks, his cars don’t work, EV is a useless ideology, he’s personally broke. On and on. The left wing attacks are just so predictable.
painkiller
NumanToday 02:00 pm JST
I'm trying to catch up with this one.
So because Musk let Trump back on Twitter, Tesla is an enemy of the liberals?
wallace
Trump is not interested in Twitter and did not return.
Blacklabel
Tesla sold 1.3 million vehicles.
but but they missed the sales target of……1.33 million
a sales target that is an average of the expectations not of Tesla but of a group of Wall Street analysts.
Blacklabel
Actually hasn’t “lost” anything, it’s a paper loss at most. Stock goes back up, he gets it all back.
Zuckerberg lost 70 billion of his total 125. But you never mock him, wonder why (zuckerbucks for Dems in 2020)
Blacklabel
muh Rivian scream the liberals. Oh the stock that went from $179 to $18? That Ford dropped their partnership with?
yeah they made 14,000 and sold 12,000. Way better than 1.3 million right?
muh Nio! Chinese…stock down 70% in a year. Next!
muh Nikolai! Fraud, down 79%, a $2 stock. next!
muh Canoo! Stock down 89% a 23 cent stock.
Getting the picture?
Blacklabel
Oh im sorry I totally forgot Lucid, how could I forget such a well run and profitable company.
down 83%- a $6 stock now.
Nemo
Absolute bottom of the barrel quality ratings.
This is due to a lack of management.
Toyota realized that quality and defect-free manufacturing doesn’t just happen; it’s a function of training, systems to ensure it and relentless focus at all levels of management.
Meanwhile, Elon brings Andrew Tate back to Twitter, eel he’s on his debts, alienates his employees and impregnates his subordinates.
And people wonder why Tesla quality ratings (and stock price) are in the toilet.
Yeah, he’s a business genius.
Just look at those cheering him on, lol.
Eastmann
and how many sold in Japan?
very few as you can hardly see one in daily traffic...most of them made in China...
lincolnman
Yea - A LOSS - thanks for admitting it. Even Murdoch's NY Post calls him the world's biggest Loser....
https://nypost.com/2022/12/31/elon-musk-becomes-first-person-ever-to-lose-200-billion/
I could care less about Zuckerberg - mock him all you want...
And since you respect his opinion so much, I know you agree with Elon when he says Trump is "old news" and time for DeSantis to be crowned the Ultra MAGA King, or is it Queen - as in drama....ROFL...