"When Anne Marie Squeo received her fiery red Tesla sports utility vehicle in 2020, the 55-year-old marketing and communications professional felt like she had joined a special "club" of people who were doing something to help the environment, while still driving with style.

But last year, as Tesla boss Elon Musk shared right-wing conspiracy theories on Twitter, posted a picture of guns by his bedside, and proposed terms to resolve the war in Ukraine that were adamantly rejected by many of the country's top leaders, Anne Marie's satisfaction gave way to shame.

"It's been very depressing, and sometimes embarrassing to be driving this car around," says Anne Marie, a former journalist who lives in Connecticut and wrote an article about her discomfort. "I wondered if people were making a judgement about me that I wasn't looking for."

Once hailed as the secret to Tesla's success, Elon Musk now appears to be one of its biggest problems, as his steady stream of politically charged social media posts alienates key parts of Tesla's customer base, just as increased competition starts to eat away at the firm's dominance of the electric car market."

BBC

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

He is a car salesman, not the inventor.

But I get her point, he's an idiot, and why would someone want to be associated with an idiot...

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I was right.

There is a good chance that Tesla may go the way of the Studebaker and Tucker. Great car brands ahead of their time that couldn't take head on competition when the other makers caught up. .

With pretty much every major brand coming out with an EV in the next year or three Tesla no longer holds the EV market.

No doubt a company like toyota will make good EVs that are functional, affordable, and well supported by their dealers.

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

Makes total sense.

Tesla had a certain target market, and he has completely tainted the brand for them.

with him proving himself such a Kanye-esque kook, being associated with Telsa products has becone a scarlet letter.

Either the shareholders need to pull a Papa John's and contain that dotard, or Telsa will be a joke.

Once all the other manufacturers have a full lineup of untainted EV's (that will no doubt be less silly looking)

the consumers will go elsewhere.

The wealthy will want BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Astin, etc

and the middle class will go with Toyota, Honda, Dodge, Ford, etc

Telsa is teetering on the precipice right now and Elon is doing his best to push it over because he's so out of touch

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

The WRONGZ above^^^^are totally hysterical with their bullshit predictions.


Elon Musk banks almost $12B of Tesla money in seven days
Tesla shares rally after electric vehicle company clears $24B in fourth-quarter revenue

Tesla will lead EV market for 'quite some time': R 'Ray' Wang
Constellation Research founder R 'Ray' Wang joins 'Varney & Co.' to discuss Tesla shares following its record revenue and earnings report.

Elon Musk added another $11.98 billion to his bank account over the last week, as tracked by the Dow Jones Market Data Group.

The most recent filings show Musk holds 423,622,000 shares in Tesla worth $53.87 billion as of close of trading on Jan. 19. The total value of those holdings jumped to $67.89 billion based on Thursday's closing price.

The weekly total doesn't account for Musk's other assets and liabilities as CEO of SpaceX and Twitter, founder of The Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. Forbes lists Musk's overall worth at $168.7 billion.

Tesla is up nearly 25% over the past five days and up 48% since the start of the year. The stock remains the Nasdaq 100's best performer, despite being down approximately 42% over the past year.

Shares have also rallied the last month, revving almost 30% into the green. Tesla is currently on its longest winning streak since Sept.12, 2022, when it rose for five straight trading days.

Fourth-quarter earnings
In its latest earnings release on Wednesday, Tesla said it generated about $24.32 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, marking a 37% increase from the same three-month period last year. The company's profits saw a roughly 59% jump from 2021's Q4 to $3.7 billion, while its adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.19.

Refinitiv estimates for revenue and earnings per share were $24.16 billion and $1.13 respectively, meaning Tesla came in higher on both.

The company said in early January that its vehicle production for the quarter came in at over 439,700 vehicles. Meanwhile, its deliveries were nearly 405,300.

Musk praised the Tesla team during the earnings call for its performance "despite the fact that 2022 was an incredibly challenging year due to forced shutdowns, very high interest rates and many delivery challenges."

"Thus far in January, we've seen the strongest orders year-to - date than ever in our history. We're currently seeing orders at almost twice the rate of production," he said.

Musk noted it was "hard to say" whether that will continue.

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Edited: 01/29/2023 at 09:51 AM by Fish Killer

'Elon Musk has made me embarrassed to drive my Tesla now'....

Musk doesn't give a shit about this shrew.

Id tell her to sell her 'undesirable' vehicle to the multitudes who want it as the orders for Tesla's are two for every one being made.

Bet she could sell it at a profit!

LMAO!

HARD!

(Oh and I personally could give a shit about the EV market as nope...I will NEVER own one.)


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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Edited: 01/29/2023 at 09:53 AM by Fish Killer

Look who's finally supportive of EV's!

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

So easy. LOL

Lomtard can never win.



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I was right.

how should we know? ask the kreepler the same thing about ewe

Tesla was cool when we thought Elon was a lib. Libitards are sheeple. Refer to pop culture to find out what they should think.

correct coal, living for keyboard victories is a much bigger WIN lmafo

Jim lost....long ago.

He is a total pathological lying failure.

He knows it...he had it proved to him long ago.

He doesn't know how to offshore fish....will never have a boat....can't afford to even pay to offshore fish....

Sooo...he does fish for bass!

Off the bank.

LMAO!

HARD!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Edited: 01/29/2023 at 06:57 PM by Fish Killer

I heard .............he paints his own car

...what color?

Lolz

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Nice try, but no.

People aren't into R Kelly now

How many people are still Bill Cosby fans?

When someone proves themselves to be a turd, normal people don't want to be associated with them or their companies.

I'm surprised you have trouble realizing that.

Maybe you're a turd too?



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Edited: 01/29/2023 at 11:19 PM by fishkller

why the fukk would I care

Have to stick with your prius to save face!

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

I had seen that article earlier and thought, , , , , , WTF! Really!

Hey, lady, , , , ,! I don't give a fuck what you drive. Does Twitter drive your car? It is sad though that you no longer feel so clubby. Still "driving in style"? Oh and, Elon thanks you for your purchase.

Political marketing, , , , ,. Your feelings are now more important than facts, , , , , ,

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Dora Hates You

I guess that's how you suckers walk around Steaks'd and proud hahahaha

And you're lining up for more

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Edited: 01/30/2023 at 05:04 AM by fishkller

Corvette E-Ray looks interesting

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti