All the other auto companies make competing, if not better motors

Maybe motors and batteries, but the vehicles as a whole need help. Coming from a Tesla Model 3, and ending up driving several other models these last few months for several weeks at a time... Most other manufacturers don't know what the fuck they're doing with EVs.

The Kia EV6 rental that I currently have they seem to have just swapped the gas motor for an EV motor and battery pack, and left everything else about the vehicle the same. So it doesn't know what the fuck it is. The key fob does wake the car up as you walk up and it unfolds the mirrors and lights flash at you, but it doesn't actually unlock the car, you still have to lock and unlock it via the buttons on the fob. So it seems like they said, people expect EVs to welcome them, and made it do that but didn't actually think it through. So why does it wake up at all? There's a Start button just like you have on ICE, and you have to turn it back off when you're done, as if it needs to start and stop an ICE engine. It has an accessory mode for charging, but warns you that it will drain the battery, presumably because it still only uses the 12V battery for that, and the HV system won't charge that if the car isn't "ON"? And the EV6 is one of the models I see recommended all over the place online.

He could be seen as a vaguely entertaining asshole though. Before he went and removed any lingering doubt.

Isn’t exclusive data just ‘Trust us bro, we have the numbers?’

That's true too. My Hyundai is better than any of the many Teslas I've sat in as a passenger.

They don't even have Lidar.

also Tesla is no longer the best electric car on the market.

Was it ever?

I don't remember a year when they didn't have QC problems while over promising and under delivering.

Not really though. My brother bought a Model 3 when they first came out and loved it so much he traded it in for a Model 3 Performance version a couple years later. Then he bought his wife a Model Y. Some people (with money) buy cars every couple of years.

Since Elon started doing Nazi salutes and started ripping up the government with DOGE, my brother traded in both cars for an F150 Lightning and a Rivian R1S. He'll never buy a Tesla again as long as Musk is involved.

I know several people who currently have Teslas but won't buy another. Brand loyalty is absolutely in the shitter.

The VW Group alone sold 3x the EVs in Europe as Tesla and are valued at 1/20th of Tesla.

Silverado EV. I honestly like it a lot more than I expected and it has grown on me day by day. It is not Tesla-efficient however, but for everything I use it for it performs fantastic and the maintenance is practically non-existent.

My errands around town / daily driver is otherwise an older Chevy Bolt which is just fine as well.

It almost seems like it was designed specifically to meet these specs.

Even if a vehicle exceeds 6,000 pounds, it must fall into one of three specific categories to qualify for full Section 179 expensing.

• Passenger Vehicles with Seating for 9 or More

  Example: Mercedes Sprinter Van (typically used as airport shuttles)

• Pickup Trucks with a Cargo Bed of at Least 6 Feet that is separate from the passenger compartment

  Tesla Cybertruck falls into this category!

• Fully Enclosed Vehicles With No Rear Seating

  Example: Amazon delivery vans

Yeah but it also leads to years-long gaps where it's "just" gut feeling when we knew all along what it was.

"Scientists discover Trump supporters are narcissistic xenophobic assholes" - yeah we know.

Then corporate news sewers publish it like "see we're on the side of truth" when MFs if you were on the side of truth you would have published this at the time, not four years later.

He fired the statistician that said our employment sucked.

If we stop testing then there is no bad news. Should be this admins motto.

They could also easily wind down some of their very high capital expenditures to last even longer. It'd mean slowing their growth and shelving some new ideas, things we probably haven't even seen, but that would dramatically change their balance sheet.

Doing that isn't good for the long term though, it would just cause a stagnation loop leading to further scaling back, but as a temporary measure if cash preservation was important enough, it is an option worth tens of billions over multi year time frame.

Edit: and by slowing growth I don't mean their car sales are declining so that's not growth, I mean maybe investing less in the AI super computer they are building, or not building a 2nd lithium refinery right away even if the 1st one works out as planned. The kind of things that are good for the future of the company, but you can't just throw money at when things might turn dire and you need to hang onto that cash for security.