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Tesla is a ruined brand. Even if he sold his shares, many people will never forgive the other shareholders for standing by a Nazi as he demolished American democracy. I will never buy anything from Tesla as long as i live, and i was once part of his key market: i had intentions to buy a powerwall, a solar roof, and a car. People always say that Volkswagen got free from its Nazi roots; I say, not while Hitler wore his brain on the inside.
Agreed, the brand is forever tarnished in my eyes and I sold all of my stock in the company. I can't imagine that Tesla will survive even 10 more years in car production. Their charging network will probably stand for some time, though, as there's sadly no major players stepping up.
It's arguably not any better but isn't Walmart about to fire up a charging network?
Hate to say it, but lots of people still buy VW even when the current CEO is still sympathetic to Nazis. Unfortunately Tesla will be fine.
Can you provide source on the VW CEO being sympathetic to Nazis?
Idk about the current CEO, but the first one for sure was
And like all of Japan and all of Italy and all of Germany. They were on opposite sides in a war. There are degrees of support, ut part of the process of ending war is moving forward without constant grudge holding. Certainly, hold those responsible that committed heinous crimes, but we don’t put entire populations and all their industry in jail.
VW currently is still doing terrible things, but no more than other companies. Elon is magnitudes worse on many fronts.
It was a joke. I was referring to the fact that VW was literally created by Nazis before being resurrected after WWII. Sorry, should've made that more clear.
Except vw made decent cars. The cyber truck is dogshit and the rest is low quality chock full of lies like mileage estimate algorithms and never going to happen "full self driving"
As far as I know the VW CEO is not a Nazi sympathizer, only Elon is. The person is being purposefully misleading.
VW had it's history from Nazi Germany, but it isn't run by Nazi like Tesla.
But yeah, Tesla got infamous for poor quality, especially with cybertruck.
You can't hold a grudge forever though. There came a time when none of Volkwagen's employees or officers were around during the 3rd Reich, and all of the assets dating back from that era got replaced completely, making the Volkswagen brand name the only carryover from the Hitler era.
My Dad used to go vacationing in Southern France way back when. When he was on the beach, he would scream and shout at older Germans, calling them Nazis and telling them to go home. But he never did that with younger Germans. When we kids asked him why he only hated older Germans so much, he told us "The kids who were born after the liberation didn't do anything. Why would I hate them?" - Made sense to us.
It’s true - anyone born after Trumpism is over and musk and the gang are long dead will have the luxury of seeing Tesla as just another company. Given Tesla’s business fundamentals as evidenced by the last earnings report, though, i doubt it will still be a going concern.