this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
1496 points (97.2% liked)

Microblog Memes

5878 readers
3617 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Nic McConnell @NicMcC83:

this is the most devastating review of anything i've ever seen

Scary Whitta @garywhitta· 1d:

Imagine if your printer was also your car. That's what owning a Tesla is like.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Fades@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

How about the shit quality control (another ref) for starters, not to mention the broken promises (approaching false advertisement at this point). Oh and don't forget the battery fires (oh, but don't worry!! Phony Stark told us that only 0.01% of teslas have ever caught fire. Only 200+ times using goodcarbadcar, phew!!! )

Your singular anecdote about having no issues is certainly indicative of the actual situation, yep must just be bad headlines

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Yep my uncle who recently retired from the auto industry, as an engineer, dished out some truly scathing critiques of Tesla, both the products and the company. They have a long, long way to go, and unfortunately one giant ego to interfere with everything. Kind of a joke really.

Granted he worked for Toyota, so the bar on quality was extremely high...

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Even an econo-shitbox won't need repair for the first 2 years.

Just showing up to defend his own purchase and not doing it in a particularly convincing way lol

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think that every time a gas car gets on fire it makes it to the headlines? Have you heard about selection bias?

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just saying, ICE car fires aren't as dangerous as battery fires.

One burns faster, WAY hotter, and is harder to put out.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It burns much slower, not faster. That's why it can burn for so long. And it has to be put differently. It's like saying a grease fire is harder to put out because you can't pour water on it. You can easily put it out by covering it, tho, same as battery fires.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ignites faster, is what I meant.

Also not many fire stations have the ability to put out electrical fires, so yes, it's harder to put out.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ignites faster? A cigarette or just a static spark can Ignite gas fumes, you need to do pretty catastrophic damage to a pack for it to Ignite...

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... Are you purposely being dense?

Light an ICE and EV vehicle on fire. See which one you can sit in the drivers seat longer for.

[–] Sowhatever@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

EV, because it burns slower

[–] i_simp_4_tedcruz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. .01% seems small, but that means that out of every 10,000 Teslas sold, one of them has already caught fire. That's a ridiculously huge number