We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly.”
It turns out when you take away the money people get fraudulently, they get very upset. They basically want to kill me because I’m stopping their fraud, and they want to hurt Tesla because we are stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government. I guess they are bad people. Bad people do bad things.”
There’s a lot of things happening at once (for Tesla) that it’s difficult to point to any one cause,
The noise, the protests, make it seem as if the brand is sort of dropping, but the brand is strengthening among a different target audience, which is people on the right,
Tesla has to compete with all of those cars in a marketplace that they basically helped to define,
I would sell it in a heartbeat if somebody offered me a decent price, but the chances of that happening probably not the case,
It did lose a vast amount of value in the short two years that I had it. It only had 10,000 miles on it,