r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Substantial-Gear3279 • 18d ago

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u/wot_r_u_doin_dave 18d ago

The whole Nazi thing will be nothing in the longterm compared to his underestimating how quickly China will dominate the EV space.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Gladly, the US isn't the boss of the world anymore- despite Trump's protestations and tantrums. Tesla & Big Oil have been hard-lobbying to keep tariffs high on Chinese imports. Tesla prefers people buy their $70k+ EVs, and Big Oil would rather that people not be able to buy $30k EVs in North America. Car Culture must continue on!

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u/wot_r_u_doin_dave 18d ago

All true. But even if it wasn’t for Trump and all his nonsense Tesla took their eye off the ball a while back. China will steal the bottom end of the market and they’re rapidly losing the luxury space to the likes of Audi, Mercedes etc. The truck is just a stupid gimmick. Even the likes of Renault are making Tesla beaters now. And it’s because Musk is actually a really shitty CEO as well as being a really shitty person.

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u/Sartres_Roommate 17d ago

He was actually right when he said they had put all their eggs into the FSD basket. And that is where they are already getting beaten but because Elon, and Elon alone, made the choice to not use lidar they are now so far behind in FSD it is impossible to catch up.

Tesla is done and the investors are finally getting it.

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u/r0b0d0c 2d ago

I doubt Tesla's FSD will ever work. If they can't get FSD to perform after crunching millions of hours of training data, maybe they need to scrap their current models and start over from scratch.