• @cocolowlander@feddit.nl
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    1404 days ago

    For its part, Tesla has been trying to boost its image with the help of President Trump. On Monday, the president took to the South Lawn of the White House to promote Tesla’s cars, apparently buying one despite having campaigned on an explicitly anti-electric vehicle platform.

    Somehow, I don’t think MAGA cult will buy electric vehicles in quantities needed to offset even a fraction of people who used to buy Tesla.

    • @tburkhol@lemmy.world
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      704 days ago

      Imagine the CEO of Browning or American Rifles helping Joe Biden pick out a new gun from a display in the state dining room.

    • @Uniquitous@lemmy.one
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      494 days ago

      Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

    • @dick_fineman@discuss.online
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      294 days ago

      Well if they make a Cybertruck 2 that’s lifted and looks like the Dildozer, they might have a new market. It’ll get 50 miles per-charge, but it’ll intimidate their neighbor’s kid, so it’s worth the $380,000 price tag (financed, of course).

    • @juergen@feddit.orgOP
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      174 days ago

      which is great, because it will increase the chance that tesla will go down and with that elon musk.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      104 days ago

      I don’t think the MAGA Cult can even AFFORD electric vehicles, I mean, shit I know I can’t.

    • @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      53 days ago

      Yeah does Elon not know who his main economic base is? Environmental and techy liberals that love to cancel people, he got into the wrong business for his political leanings I think

    • @chakan2@lemmy.world
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      34 days ago

      Eh…put a lift kit, USA flag wrap, and a smoke machine on the cyber truck and they’d double sales.

      • @Tja@programming.dev
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        33 days ago

        I don’t think the Venn diagram of “ev buyer” and “trump voter” is big enough to double sales.

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      You can blow that exact point up pretty large. The MAGA verse is a parasite on the rest of the US. I would love to see them try to stand on their own as an independent nation. It would be Texas + a bunch of little shithole countries gathered around its skirts. They wouldn’t have the economic wherewithal to GDP their way out of a wet paper bag.

    • manxu
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      03 days ago

      I think that’s what the Cybertruck is for, to appeal to Conservatives. I live on the edge between blue and red counties, and down in red territory the Cybertrucks are everywhere. (Meaning I saw at least four different ones.)