Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43304671

Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk - Divisions by zero

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43304669 [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43304669]

If they somehow manage to make Musk sell his shares, Tesla might become a viable company again.

Until then: I don’t care.

Idk, even before Musk went full meth head things were already heading south pretty fast - they’d completely squandered their first mover advantage and their “move fast and break things” approach was really starting to take a toll on their brand reputation. Teslas were already starting to be known as expensive cars with terrible build quality, then the constant delays and broken promises about self driving did them no favors either.

A Tesla made sense when they were pretty much the only really viable luxury EV, but when you can get equivalent cars (with better build quality) from established Western manufacturers for ~75% the price or from a Chinese manufacturer for ~60%, what advantage do they have?

Musk’s cult of personally is/was a big part of it, so they are kinda screwed either way - the stink of Musk won’t instantly vanish if they get rid of him, and taints everything while he stays

The magic of Tesla was that they’re constantly iterating on the same model. The first 1000 teslas and the last 1000 teslas have nothing in common, not a single part. I don’t know how it is now, I stopped caring when Elongated started to show his true colours, but before that Tesla’s model actually had merit and gave them huge advantage.