• cocolowlander@feddit.nl
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    2 个月前

    For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump. On Monday, the president took to the South Lawn of the White House to promote Tesla’s cars, apparently buying one despite having campaigned on an explicitly anti-electric vehicle platform.

    Somehow, I don’t think MAGA cult will buy electric vehicles in quantities needed to offset even a fraction of people who used to buy Tesla.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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      Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The difference is Biden is a gun owner. So at least it would be buying a product he actually has. There has been incidents referencing him and his wife having at least a shotgun (so 2+ guns)

        With Trump hating on electric cars like he had for so long, and not knowing how to drive, it’s a bit different.

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      Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

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        A portion also associate EVs and their ilk with environmentalists, and would probably not buy one even if their very lives depended on it.

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      Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that’s lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It’ll get 50 miles per-charge, but it’ll intimidate their neighbor’s kid, so it’s worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

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      which is great, because it will increase the chance that tesla will go down and with that elon musk.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      I don’t think the MAGA Cult can even AFFORD electric vehicles, I mean, shit I know I can’t.

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      Yeah does Elon not know who his main economic base is? Environmental and techy liberals that love to cancel people, he got into the wrong business for his political leanings I think

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      Eh…put a lift kit, USA flag wrap, and a smoke machine on the cyber truck and they’d double sales.

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        I don’t think the Venn diagram of “ev buyer” and “trump voter” is big enough to double sales.

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      You can blow that exact point up pretty large. The MAGA verse is a parasite on the rest of the US. I would love to see them try to stand on their own as an independent nation. It would be Texas + a bunch of little shithole countries gathered around its skirts. They wouldn’t have the economic wherewithal to GDP their way out of a wet paper bag.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      Ah, yes… Let me tell you about a little restaurant called Chick fil a…

      Never underestimate hate, stupidity, and laziness.

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      I think that’s what the Cybertruck is for, to appeal to Conservatives. I live on the edge between blue and red counties, and down in red territory the Cybertrucks are everywhere. (Meaning I saw at least four different ones.)