Tesla Motors

Tesla driver dies in fatal shooting at Supercharger station after ‘argument over charger’

Tesla, problems at the pump, guns ... it's the singularity.

I asked a good friend of mine for an update on his Tesla, and he gave me the rare unvarnished opinion. He said he loves it, especially the fact that he has not been to a gas station since 2018, and because he has not gotten into an accident or anything he hasn't had to deal with repairs or parts shortages or anything. On the other hand, he said he could not recommend it as your primary or only car, since the range isn't good enough to make longer tricks practical (he likes the way it leads you to charging stations as needed, but doesn't like how they're often out of the way when you're on the road), and he said in the winter/cold the mileage gets cut so much you'd be fucked.

While I'm not a professional auto interior designer, I feel like I've driven a sufficient variety of cars and trucks over the past four decades to have a measured opinion about the Cybertruck interior. To be brief: Are you fucking kidding me?

Legit lols at anyone defending this p.o.s. I'm on board with the conspiracy theory that the Cybertruck is some sort of long-game joke that Musk is playing out to make fun of any cult member duped enough to buy one.

I've said it before, the interiors of Teslas are terrible, its like made out of the same stuff they use to make the fake living room sets in furniture stores

I'm still a little skeptical that the Cybertruck will actually go into mass production, everything i've heard from car guys is that you can't just make a car out of one piece of molded steel like that, if you do many of them will slowly come apart and become undriveable within a few years. but hey I'm not Mr. Car Genius

That deep dash looks pretty dangerous, like “can’t see kids in front of the car” dangerous

the people 40 feet away still have their feet hidden by the hood lol

This joker is going to end up limiting production to just one truck, and then he's going to sell it for 44 billion, probably to some Saudi prince.

i see the speedometer has been removed to make more room for the deep dash

You could fit 10 deep dish pizzas on that deep dash

Why do Teslas never have front license plates even in states that require them? Did they not design for that?

There are continual arguments in every EV owners forum as to how much front license plates disrupt aero efficiency with little in the way of convincing results one way or the other. The dealer for my Mach-E asked me if I even wanted the front plate bracket installed. I chose to leave it off - I'd like to believe that the extra 0.01 in aero (or whatever it is) does matter.

"Stick around TeslaBros, we'll show you how to make deep-dish pizzas on the dash of a Cybertruck using only the power of a burning sun in a climate gone mad - but first, we have to have a serious talk about pedestrian deaths. You're not killing enough hahaha!"

deathrace2000.jpg

Beyond Thunderdome / Tron auxiliary vehicle

Honestly thought the revive was about this

https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drops-100-gigabytes-of-tesla-secrets-to-g-1850476542

well that's fabulous news

phantom braking it just happens nbd

It's just their way of making sure you're awake. Better pay for that blue check before your car goes HAL 9000 on you.

Better than Audi's "uncontrolled acceleration!"

There are continual arguments in every EV owners forum as to how much front license plates disrupt aero efficiency with little in the way of convincing results one way or the other. The dealer for my Mach-E asked me if I even wanted the front plate bracket installed. I chose to leave it off - I'd like to believe that the extra 0.01 in aero (or whatever it is) does matter.

Are front plates optional for everyone?

I live in Maryland, where front plates are required, and saw two Teslas with front plates this morning. I think you just have to have the holes drilled. I had never heard the aerodynamics argument previously - only "it makes my car look bad!"

Front plates are required here, don't know if you'll be pulled over but you may be ticketed when parked. (Often - always? - the same thing for backing into parking spots.)

There are plenty of gasoline-powered cars which have aerodynamic fronts.

I live in Arkansas, a one-plate state. When I moved to Minnesota, a two-plate state, I had to get a bracket installed on the front. And when I moved back to the one-plate state, I kept the license plate on the front as a souvenir, at least until the state trooper stopped me and said I couldn't have two different state license plates on my car.

(Which makes sense, I guess.)

When I lived in North Carolina, there was a cart in the mall where you could buy novelty plates to put in your front plate holder.

We've got an airbrushed pegasus on ours, bought as a joke 15 years ago, but now, I wouldn't be able to find the car without it.

_There are continual arguments in every EV owners forum as to how much front license plates disrupt aero efficiency with little in the way of convincing results one way or the other. The dealer for my Mach-E asked me if I even wanted the front plate bracket installed. I chose to leave it off - I'd like to believe that the extra 0.01 in aero (or whatever it is) does matter._


Yeah but I’m pretty sure states that have two license plates require that both be displayed, front and back. I see this phenomenon on other luxury vehicles too, Teslas just seem to be the worst offender. Not sure how these guys aren’t being stopped by cops.

plus they may be cops

No one may ever get the chance to make pizza on that stupid dashboard, because it's barely a car or truck: "Leaked Tesla report shows Cybertruck had basic design flaws.

time to load my tree into my new vehicle and carry it triumphantly home through the snow

Cybertruck struggles to get up a small, slippery hill while carrying a Christmas tree. pic.twitter.com/H13KMzA59W

— 🎄 Blue Tesla 🎄 (@BlueTeslaEV) December 12, 2023

Canyonero!

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere before, but I just realized that the Cybertruck reminds me of Danger Mouse's car, the Mach III

https://occ-0-2794-2219.1.nflxso.net/dnm/api/v6/9pS1daC2n6UGc3dUogvWIPMR_OU/AAAABb_28aFggX22mGKbCVkJv8XTbadAvyhGJ-a8NPPEcp_Y-TFqt5K1ajqXOkmV9rkX_ewN89kUx5wyxfcJgOVnVtxLLFVUNHjl-nL9yHKSw5SBRscBU2s8j7Rq.jpg?r=dee

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r8iGirYfejw/hqdefault.jpg

Not only is that Tesla Truck struggling, it appears to be struggling even while being winched. Which is to say, rescued.

I hate to give them any credit, but off-road wheels aren't the same as hauling junk on roadways wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQx3_aCWQsU

Oof:

Shares in Tesla plunged as much as 11% after the market opened Thursday, wiping $73 billion off the company’s market value hours after it warned of slowing growth in electric car sales and an existential threat from Chinese rivals.

lol none of that is news, what is up with investors

I don't follow this stuff that closely, outside of passive schadenfreude, but I guess there was just an earnings presentation with bad news. Bad news always hits worse when it's coming from the actual company.

https://wapo.st/3UD1Iu2

ya so i ride my road bike on this relatively short, narrow, very winding, very very rich road probably 2 maybe 4 times a year in summer. i use a road, witter, that turns off this road about half a mile before the crash location. it's a lovely spot and nowhere to drunk drive or autopilot. because you know what? you belong in jail.

Current WaPo headline:

A Tesla employee often used Full Self-Driving. He died in a fiery crash.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/

(Spoiler alert: he was also drunk, which probably didn't help things.)

but i…

Unsurprisingly, the head of HR is gone
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/05/tesla-exodus-continues-as-top-hr-exec-leaves-after-brutal-job-cuts/

our upstairs renter used to be there, I am so glad he escaped

https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/

Your non-stop shop for cybertruck fail stories!

So a neighbor who cannot afford a garage can apparently afford one of these pieces of shit which he parks on the street.

On closer inspection, his 3 month old car not only looks like tin, but this "after market mod" looks a little... concerning.

https://i.imgur.com/pEYemgf.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/WVnmqos.jpeg

https://futurism.com/the-byte/four-die-trapped-burning-tesla

Cybercrap

whoa

https://bsky.app/profile/chinajoeflynn.bsky.social/post/3lb6exjdqj22m

I'm starting to see one of those dumbass trucks a day. I can't believe anyone drives them, or that anyone over the age of 13 likes them. (Or that anyone has that much money to buy one, but that is a different conversation.) I see the design and just think it's like someone driving a movie prop. But then again, I'm not impressed by fancy sports cars, either, so maybe it's just me and I'm missing something, and in the future everyone will be driving dumbass cars. Just like in the movies.

Speaking of which, was it on ILX or somewhere else that I first learned about a hilarious homemade Tesla truck that someone has been driving around South Lansing, Michigan?
https://preview.redd.it/south-lansing-cybertruck-v0-y2y12gxnpg1d1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=801a5bd64da62bf746a6b922848e75f0b1ab4a3a

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

he’s going to go debug some code

He's going to go pick some bugs out from under his skin

$TSLA has always been a memestock, the price has been manipulated for years.

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there has never been a better time to join the "Hit the Guardrail at 80 mph and flip your Tesla on Purpose" movement

https://i.imgur.com/4xWiYTt.jpeg

idk what's wilder about this the fact that this apparently wasn't tested or the fact that it exists at all

www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/

I’ve noticed my CT screen is unusually hot towards the bottom center at all times. Even when it’s not super hot and sunny outside in the mornings (Houston, TX).

I finally was able to test it out with a laser thermometer. 90% of the screen reads around 95-98 degrees. The bottom and especially the center will read almost 120 degrees! It’s uncomfortable to put my finger there for a long period.

I have my first service appointment tomorrow so I hope they figure something out. I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed?

So Tesla service checked and said it’s normal as the processor is behind that area or something so I let it go 🤷‍♂️

it's ok. he musta doged the nhtsa i'd think?

(nb, not celcius)

https://bsky.app/profile/madradhu.garbage.computer/post/3lnm6g5fkts2x

Gilbert Arenas’s son is in an induced coma after crashing a Cybertruck into a fire hydrant

https://bsky.app/profile/ledbydonkeys.org/post/3loltwljm2k2t

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

yesssss

saw that earlier <3

" ... and his money comes from Tesla cars"

Actually, most of that money wasn't from selling Tesla cars but rather from selling zero emission vehicle regulatory credits to other automakers, and over $11 billion from state and federal governments. Lately some money has also come in by coaxing foreign governments by dangling preferential treatment from Trump tariffs if they sign off on a Starlink contract or approval.

Impressive for landing the "FASCISM" vanity plate.

love that video