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[–] Drukail@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I bought my first EV last month. I've been looking forward to making the switch for 10 years. I would have been happy to buy a Tesla back then (not that there were many options). I didn't even consider it as an option now because of Musk.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same.

My wife just got a new car and a Tesla would have been on our short list 4-5 years ago. We didn't even consider it now.

Mostly because of musk but also because of their subscription BS, features that don't transfer if you sell it, and their general failure to deliver on many(all?) of their self driving(and other) promises.

I could have probably talked myself into ignoring most of the shortcomings but with Musk--im not going to touch a Tesla. I don't want to support that.

My father-in-law just bought a new car and said the same thing.

I'll probably need a new car in a couple of years and I am excited about all of the other electric vehicles. Rivians, BMWs, etc.

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same.

We just bought the ev Blazer this weekend. Fuck Tesla.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

From the same company feeding the trolls anti-EV propaganda when Tesla went through their growing pains, and now can’t admit that changing fundamental technology and scaling up can be hard. That Blazer is having all the same quality problems and growing pains people laugh at Tesla over - looks cool though, and was on my list as well

In my case, lack of CarPlay was a big factor against Blazer, although I’m ok with that on my Tesla, because at least they do good software

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Not arguing any of that. The point here is that I find Musk repulsive enough that the Tesla, for all of its superior software, was never even in my decision making process.

[–] abaddon@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Same here. Every company sucks in some way but Musk is just the worst. We went with the Mach E and it's been great so far. Not perfect but a huge improvement for us over ICE.