Randahl FinkJul 28, 2023

On orders from Elon Musk, Tesla employees implemented driving range calculations that fakes a longer range in the beginning of your trip and catches up with reality as you approach your destination.

The effect? When potential buyers take a new Tesla on a short test drive, they only see the inflated range numbers, and are fooled into thinking Tesla's perform better.

Dare I say… it is almost as if Elon Musk is not an honest man.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

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Show threadNicole ParsonsJul 28, 2023

@randahl

Tesla's lead in the EV industry is being used to discredit the entire transition to EV.

Just as anticipated. By the Saudi oil despots who helped Musk take Tesla private after massive government subsidies.

Show threadRandahl FinkJul 28, 2023
@Npars01 I disagree. There is no conspiracy. Reuters brings this story because it is important, and any journalist would do so — not to damage the reputation of EV’s but to tell the truth about Elon Musk and what kind of businessman he is.
Show threadNicole ParsonsJul 29, 2023

@randahl

The Saudi-Russian alliance is real.

Petrostates are desperate to thwart the transition away from oil.

Reuters is reporting on two stories:
1. An inept man driving his companies into the ground
2. A coordinated plan to keep the planet hooked on gasoline driven cars.

The oil industry has done it before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/03/lost-history-electric-car-future-transport

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/30/the-legendary-electric-car-from-the-1970s-that-led-us-electric-car-sales-until-tesla-came-along/

Who Killed the Electric Car? - Wikipedia

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®

@Npars01 @randahl
Musk’s consumer insight was that the customer always gets what she wants and she wants to treat her car like her phone: a leasable electronic appendage.

The car industry will try to enshittify cars, like Big Tech has done with ad-supported social media, fiddling with proprietary settings that lock users into ecosystems they don’t control and/or just pay a premium to keep or get value.

@pluralistic articulates more in this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/78367iWxttDwsSz0VYJbIw?si=4rAtI1m2TmCIKS-qvQfKQg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A6p3eeOcYWx01Ljd5PWSQoC

how big tech makes the internet worse, with cory doctorow

Listen to this episode from What's Gonna Happen on Spotify. how are people like bezos, zuck, and musk able to destroy the online world a little more every day? this week evangelia and emily are excited to host renowned journalist, science fiction author, and digital rights activist, cory doctorow to discuss how exactly internet platforms cut corners to take us for all we’ve got and what we can do about it. all of the links to cory’s content are available at https://pluralistic.net/ and https://craphound.com/

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Jul 29, 2023 at 12:58amWeb