Is Tesla preparing to pull the plug on domestic production in Germany? It might sound crazy for a factory that just...

Is Tesla preparing to pull the plug on domestic production in Germany? It might sound crazy for a factory that just opened a few years ago, but when you look at the abysmal sales numbers in Europe and combine them with the latest threats from management against the union, the writing might be on the wall.

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Tesla is now selling fewer vehicles in Europe than it did before Giga Berlin had even fully ramped up production.

        • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 days ago

          When I was a kid, every taxi was an old Mercedes. The new ones’ electronics systems seem like they’re purposely designed to be as unnecessarily convoluted as possible with no benefit at all.

          Just make a reliable engine that sounds nice and put durable, nice leather on the seats (with a nice cloth option). The irony of describing what I think a luxury car should be on fucking Hexbear of all places is not lost on me, but seriously. Back in the day if you had something nice it meant it could do anything, it meant it was made well, it meant you could use it for years and pass it on to your kids. It meant it could do its service for some rich fuck for a few years and then taxi on mountain roads for 900,000 km.

          90% is too generous. 99% of the “features” are gaudy bullshit or offensively impractical gimmicks. My favorite ones are the bullshit eco features. You want to know what’s more sustainable than miserable modern engines? Not manufacturing and shipping and buying a whole ass car.

          I don’t even know why I’m this mad. If they made a coaster I couldn’t afford it. But fucks sake. Cars are a marvel of engineering regardless of whether we deface our environment for their access. This upsets me a lot for some reason.