• Bldck@beehaw.org
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    1 day ago

    Musk doesn’t want the subsidies. He argues legacy OEMs are only competitive with his EVs with the subsidies, so he’ll be able to sell more without the subsidies than he does now.

    We do see lagging Tesla sales year over year, so there is probably some truth to this argument

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      23 hours ago

      Now that no EVs get subsidies they’ll have to compete directly with ICE cars which is going to be tricky in the US I think.

      I’m going to be very surprised if tesla sales won’t suffer in the US. Maybe not as much as legacy OEM EVs though.

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        12 hours ago

        Tesla sales should start suffering in Europe too. We have many other EVs to choose from and recently, BYD has even become an option. Price and quality wise I would expect it to compete with Tesla while the German brands make slightly nicer vehicles.

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          8 hours ago

          Oh definitely. I bought an electric vehicle last year and I sure as shit didn’t go for a tesla.