LMAO, Tesla owners have been saying all week that the reports of Cybertrucks rapidly disassembling themselves on the highway are fake news.
Turns out Cybertrucks are infact falling apart because the GLUE that holds the stainless steel panels in place can't survive winter temps 🫠.
Can't imagine any other car owners defending the car maker for their $100k+ ride falling the fuck apart every winter.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/20/tesla-recalls-cybertrucks-for-exterior-panels-that-fall-off/
There's been reports for over ten months about the glue quality not being up to the job. While most of the larger panels do have a few weld points the rear quarter panels only have a few small welds with the majority of the panel actually being held in with glue.
It's crazy that Tesla says the panels are structural load bearing elements but once you see all the plastic under there its easier to believe 😅
The panel thats giving the most trouble is a 8ft long piece of trim that runs along the top edge of the vehicle. Its ONLY attached with glue.
Viral videos for the past yr have been coming out with a massive rash of them throughout the winter months.
Multiple reports indicate this has happened to folks during rush hour, launching a heavy metal plate into traffic.
This excellent youtube video by a critical cybertruck owner goes over every major body panel which is glued on.
It's clearly possible to rip off some of these panels by hand.
Kinda surprised they haven't started walking off the trucks given how easy some of them come off.
Most panels appear to be easily pealed off part of the way.
So anyways, looks like Tesla has a Q1 quarterly report due out on April 22nd I suspect this will be the first time key investors really come to terms with Elon Musk's Trump antics.
Major investors are already sounding the alarm. I've been around the startup scene long enough to know the VCs are absolutely looking to can Musk. Musk is not gonna be an easy CEO to fire so they'll wait till the very last minute I bet.
Dan Ives published this review of the Tesla stock below 👇🏿
He's a large shareholder in Tesla and suggests that Musk should focus on being Tesla CEO and stop working as part of DOGE and the Trump administration. He absolutely rebuked the "brand damage" of turning Tesla political and specifically called out Trump's Tesla purchase photo op as a blunder for the company.
I think Ives knows Musk as CEO is a now a deadend but he's a big shareholder and wants you to be his exit liquidity.
I really think VCs like Dan Ives just don't understand #TeslaTakedown isn't just a brand kerfuffle they can PR wonk their way out of.
Nothing short of Musk separating from Tesla will remove the stench of that prick playing a central role in a fascist project to destroy the federal government.
These investors aren't Musk/Trump cultists, they are capitalist. They will eventually kickout Musk to try and save Tesla, so I hope the #teslatakedown keeps up the pressure.
If Musk's antics weren't enough, the free market really is not swinging in Tesla's favor like it used to.
All the major car makers have been taking their time to learn the EV market and a LOT of the older companies finally starting to fire on all cylinders with EV strategy.
China remains the elephant in the room. Upstart EV company Byd released their latest lineup this week and get very positive reviews.
Tesla is no longer the innovation leader and their quality sucks
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/byd-fast-charging-chinese-ev-manufacturer-vs-tesla/
The hits keep coming, yesterday it was reported that Tesla trade ins have increased 300%+ since this time last year. With the majority of that change occurring in the last few months since Elon Musk became the poster child of US far right politics.
On the heels of all this bad news rumours are swirling that Tesla investors and insiders are offloading shares.
Prompting Musk to hold an all hands begging Tesla employees to stop selling shares of the company:
“If you read the news, it feels like Armageddon. I can’t walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire,” he said. “I understand if you don’t want to buy our product, but you don’t have to burn it down. That’s a bit unreasonable.”
During last weekend's Tesla Takedown protests, a Tesla customer was seen exiting a Kansas Tesla dealership to do multiple Nazi salutes in front of a cybertruck.
The Nazicar loving Nazi then tried to get protesting soccer moms with their kids to fight him while claiming to be a former US military service member.
Eventually a woman, presumably his wife, was seen dragging the hate filled Tesla customer back into the dealership.
When the crowd of protesters accused the Tesla customer of supporting a Nazi and possibly being one, the man replied "Yeah!" and did the deed.
The man goes on to explain the reason he is buying a Tesla is specifically due to the anti-fasicst protests and to support Musk.
Original footage of the encounter was uploaded to YouTube.
It took a few days but internet sleuths were able to identify the man in the video...
📸 IG: @thatdaneshguy
https://linktr.ee/thatdaneshguy
#Tesla #Nazi #JosephTSwinson #Derby #Iowa #IA #TeslaTakedown #Nazicar
Elon Musk on Fox News this had a rare moment of clarity where he says his involvement in the Trump Administration is hurting his companies bottom line.
He ends the clip by whining about Tim Walz taking joy in the $TSLA stock drop, a sign things are going just fine for the car company I'm sure /s 😅
#TimWalz #ElonMusk #Tesla #TeslaTakedown #DOGE #USPol #Swatsicar #nazicars
Reading the details of how and why Tesla is being locked out of current and future Canadian EV tax incentives reveals a possibly jaw dropping attempt by Tesla at fraud.
Canada's iZEV rebate program was winding down unexpectedly early this January. Some how in a 3day span four Tesla dealerships claimed to have sold an astronomical 2 cars every minute, clearing out the remaining rebate funds.
I wonder if having your sales numbers investigated for fraud could hurt a company's stock value 🤔
https://fortune.com/2025/03/26/elon-musk-tesla-under-investigation-canada-wrongfully-boosting-sales/
#Tesla #canada #fraud #rebate #ev #izev #ElonMusk #NaziCar #swasticar
Damn, they got Canadians out here torching Teslas in Calagary now?
Two Teslas, one in a Tesla storage lot, and another at a Tesla charging station some how found themselves on fire surrounded by broken glass and "accelerate".
Can't even finish verifying the fire video before realizing that... over a week ago Canadians reported 80 Teslas at a dealership were keyed or otherwise vandalized.
The interviews in the piece are honestly great man-on-the-street work. The disappointed Canadian cybertruck owner. Total comrade brown guy who sold his Tesla the second he realized it was against his own interest to support a fascist corp.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/03/20/hamilton-dealership-80-tesla-cars-damaged/
#Canada #Hamilton #Tesla #ElonMusk #FiftyFirstState #TSLA #Toronto
How is this real life?
From childhood dreaming about solar powered cars I fully expected the headline "plug in electric car startup with innovative charging network faltering, soon to be bankrupt and scavanaged for parts by the big 3 auto makers"
But having that slowly coming true while Canadians are, allegedly, burning said companies EVs for, checks notes, supporting the annexation of Canada is absolutely breaking my brain right now.
Overnight 17 Teslas in Rome were incinerated under mysterious circumstances. Authorities are not sure how the fire started but say there's millions of dollars worth of cars destroyed and significant fire damage to buildings at the dealership.
Guess some folks in Rome aren't big fans of Roman salutes...
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And just like the story in Canada, there may have been additional Teslas torched recently.
Authorities initially reported the fire from a week ago as an electrical fire and not arson as it involved a few different brands of used cars including some Teslas. Now ppl are wondering if the Teslas were targeted.
Teslas may be getting extra hear in Italy due to their conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's close relationship with Elon Musk.
Scrolling the fedi and and there were seven Tesla's burned to the ground at a German Tesla dealership just two days ago.
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/114244579615099308
#Germany #Deutschland #Ottersberg #Tesla #LowerSaxony #EU #ElonMusk #NaziCar #Swasticar
Elmo burns books and people … people just burn Teslas https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/verden-sieben-teslas-vollstaendig-ausgebrannt-a-872cd283-f710-41b7-9d91-c773ab25d491
If the brand damage of burning Teslas stealing headlines worldwide weren't bad enough, then today's news that Elon Musk and one of his partner's got into a messy relationship dispute on his zombie Twitter platform X.
It all started when Ashely St Claire posted a video on X showing her selling her Tesla and complaining about the billionaire's fight for lower child support for his 14th child.
So again, Elon's baby mama sold her Tesla very publicly on his platform X this morning all while bad mouthing him as a parent.
Naturally this triggered the Musk fan girl "good christian women" who've been calling the mother of Musk's 14th kid(6mo) a "gold digger" and say she "baby trapped Musk"
You know, just the kinda press a flagging tech CEO wants heading into a critical quarterly report & call at the end of the month.
@elonmusk @LauraLoomer @Tesla Elon, we asked you to confirm paternity through a test before our child (who you named) was even born. You refused. And you weren’t sending *me* money, you were sending support for your child that you thought was necessary… until you withdrew most of it to maintain control and
Another L for Musk, the conservative Wisconsin supreme court judge he bought just lost!
On Sunday Musk headlined an event where he bribed WI voters to support the MAGA candidate in the race.
Musk promised that a GOP win in WI would be the first part of destroying our already extremely fucked up court system and replacing it with MAGA only courts and judges.
Guess that wasn't something most people could get behind.
@nullagent I saw a video earlier of one of Elon’s baby mamas selling her Tesla because he’s cut down the child support or something.
At the end of the video it shows Carvana taking the car away. I don’t know anyone with a Tesla, but if anyone wants to sell their Tesla it looks like Carvana will take them.
Oooh yea its real, and Elon evidently is possibly refusing to take a court ordered paternity test despite also insisting on naming the child when they were born. 🫠
Tesla is probably burning them itself by now. They probably make more revenue through insurance than by selling the vehicles 😂
@nullagent these people literally grade themselves on:
- how well they skirt or outright break laws
- how well they hamfist racism into things
- how much damage they do
- how much misery they create
if you zoom way way out, they look like a type of cancer or flesh eating bacteria. or like, a cordycepts type fungus
@nullagent please, could you update your images to add alt texts ? That will make them accessible to everyone.
First image :
Picture taken in front of a Tesla dealserhip. Several etsla cars are parked, and we can see a white bald man with a mustache, all dressed in black, with his right arm bent in front of his chest.
Second image :
Close up on the man. He is now extending his right arm in a nazi salute while shouting something.
For sure, I think there's snowball in hell type probability that Musk fully divests but if top investors still believe in Tesla but hate musk enough they might be able to provide a partial exit for Musk as a majority share holder.
Which I think musk as a minority share holder has a slim chance of giving the right investors a shot at saving Tesla...
But more likely they do nothing and wait for Chinese EVs to kill 'em
@nullagent If an employee of a company creates a public nuisance of themselves that ends up reflecting poorly on the company, the company has the legitimate moral and legal authority to terminate that employee's relationship with the company.
Musk has always been an asshole, but now he thinks he's the ruler of the world, and no right-minded person wants anything to do with anything he touches.
Tesla's saving grace is, Musk is just the money man, not the inventor.
Yea I guess the question for investors is do they stoke a panic exiting their positions, and self fulfilling Ives' "black swan event" or do they worry about sunk costs and go all in on Musk.
The middle road imo count's on how many sharks Tesla's top engineering teams and business leaders have. Is there a 2nd in command that can keep investors fired up and want the CEO seat or at least Musk gone?
This is the time the internal politics could get spicy at an org like that
@Flisty I am generally against cars, because the word "car" carries connotations of high speed and long distance, luxury and prestige that is exactly what our world doesn't need, but I do recognise the need for motorized transport of some kind, just lower speed, shorter range, smaller size and weight, cheaper, and more recyclable.
The Citroën Ami quadricycle is the kind of car that works for me.
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