Ask HN: How do you feel now about your Tesla purchase?
Now that the cat is out of the bag, how do you feel about your Tesla purchase?
I traded mine in for a Rivian this week, couldn't stomach it anymore.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, how do you feel about your Tesla purchase?
I traded mine in for a Rivian this week, couldn't stomach it anymore.
Did you ever wear HUGO BOSS clothes, or use an IBM computer?
Do you know what they did in WWII?
Well, I mean, no; the clothes aren’t really my thing, and a home AS/400 seems a bit silly.
However, there’s a difference between “this corporate entity supported the Nazis 80 years ago, albeit all humans involved are now dead” (absent a corporate death penalty you’re always going to get this) and “the CEO of this company is prancing around doing Nazi salutes _right now_”. Like, seriously, can you not see that?
In WW2 is a key factor here. 80 years ago
Driving a new Tesla now especially a Cybertruck is signalling a lot about yourself. To many people it shows at best you don't care at all about politics, and the worst is much worse. I'm sure that won't deter some but it clearly has influenced other consumers especially for a company who's consumer base has been environmentalists
Nobody working there now had anything to do with Nazis or WWII. In fact, a good way to get fired from either company is to be seen throwing Hitler salutes in public.
Extremely conflicted. Love our Teslas. FSD is incredible. But I helped support Elon becoming what he is now. Not a good feeling. I sold all of my Tesla stocks, though.
I have four and I won’t buy another until he’s no longer associated with the enterprise. Test driving an F150 Lightning tomorrow.
It’s great.
I wouldn't hold owning a Tesla against anyone, especially if they bought it before 2024. Lots of people bought their Teslas before Elon Musk became full-on red-pill woke.
Now that Cybertruck is another story, there's no excuse for that monstrosity.
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Username is as insular as your comment
The handle by which you've chosen to go on this site says a lot about you.
Love it! Zero issues with my Teslas. Don't like the design of Rivian.
> couldn't stomach it anymore
Why?
I find this kind of sealioning really unproductive, given the publicity around Tesla's owner right now. I highly doubt someone with your resumé and levels of capital ownership would need any of this context explained, let alone the average HN reader.
I love my car irrespective of public opinion about Tesla's owner. Media narratives don't affect the reliability of my car or the comfort I experience driving it. I simply enjoy the vehicle for what it is.
Musk owns 15% of Tesla. He is not Teslas owner. Most of Tesla is owned by retail shareholders and index funds.
> I find this kind of sealioning really unproductive, given the publicity around Tesla's owner right now.
These assumptions(including the ones in the submission) is only true within a certain bubble and an echo chamber. Strange that half the country isnt even acknowledged and are actively downvoted and flagged to stop them from engaging, which works well.
You don’t appear to have any trouble engaging and your only downvoted posts appear to low-quality, is this like the imaginary “cancel culture” claims where people with national reach pretended that they had been silenced?
It’s not an echo chamber to notice that Tesla’s owner linking his identity to an extremely partisan role turns off the approximately half of people who don’t share his politics:
https://navigatorresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nav...
That’s not a bubble, it’s just basic business sense: if you’re in a competitive market, there a cost to giving people a reason to look elsewhere and especially so when most of your historical buyers have been in the opposing camp. It’s why you don’t know how the CEOs of Ford or Toyota vote, because they are smart enough not to jeopardize their long-term future just for a little publicity now.