What if that was precisely his point? Musk is a marketeer, if he can convince people that you can drive a Tesla when you are a member of the traditional right it means more business for him!
Teslas have some appeal to car people, they look sleek and have terrific acceleration, it's just unfortunate that they have an image problem because they are associated with the woke left. Elons comportment will change that view.
People who drive Teslas are overwhelmingly doing it for environmental reasons, as well as supporting the cause of electric vehicles (aka mitigating climate change).
Most Republicans aren’t interested in those causes.
Elon isn’t a marketing genius. These tweets are hammering Tesla’s stock price- it’s down 4.5% on a day when the greater market is up slightly.
I'm always grateful when Elon reminds me as a consumer to avoid spending my money with companies he is involved with. My new car was going to be Tesla. No more.
Probably related to Biden refusing to ack Tesla when talking about electric vehicles. He eventually did, but not before Musk and others noticing the cold shoulder and calling it out publicly.
This place was almost exclusively into him until the cave diver thing; it was kind of cult-like. I think the "wait, maybe this guy is an arsehole, rather than a magical super-genius" tendency started growing at that point.
Everyone had (or will have) this wake up moment at some point. Here it was thai pedo slander, for me personally it was that Tesla will school Toyota how to make cars.
HN feels totally lost in last couple of weeks. The endless Mastodon + Twitter + Musk spam is pretty bad and no amount of downvoting and flagging helps.
