• @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    383 months ago

    It’s hurting in the US too. I am not a hard partisan but I would never buy a Tesla anymore because I’d be worried of being seen as making a political statement. I’m probably in the market for an electric vehicle in the next few years.

    • cheesymoonshadow
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      203 months ago

      When I first started seeing Tesla cars on the road, I would think, “Must be nice. I can’t wait for the price of Teslas to go down.”

      Now when I see them, I wonder if the driver regrets owning one.

      Guy who owned the company I used to work for owned one when it was considered prestigious, and last year traded it in for a Genesis.

    • @tills13@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      I’ve owned two Teslas and have previously raved about them to colleagues. My current Y is my last Tesla.

    • LustyArgonianMana
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      43 months ago

      I’ve heard the Kia EV6 is amazing, so you might want to consider checking it out

    • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      33 months ago

      It’s weird that as a liberal, driving a Tesla is frowned upon.

      Like, I get it, Musk is way more weird. But that there’s an electric car that I can’t buy for fear of being viewed as a conservative. That’s kinda weird.

      • @gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        43 months ago

        buying that electric car is basically proclaiming to the world that you support a white supremacist/facist so yeah lmao not that weird

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        43 months ago

        the word conservative is not what you think it means anymore. It had some meaning maybe 10 years ago, but now it’s synonymous with another word