CEO of Tesla and acting President-elect Musk is going on a neo-Nazi binge endorsing far right candidates instead of properly running the companies he’s involved in such as Tesla.
In addition Tesla is considered one of the most unreliable car brands according to: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-placed-bottom-consumer-reports-reliability-rankings/
Moreover Tesla has the highest fatal accident rates of all car brands according to: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
Also there are privacy implications with using a car that could in theory spy on you: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/massive-trove-of-tesla-files-contains-thousands-of-safety-complaints/
Now that more competent and establish brands are making EVs there’s no reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV. I’m not here to recommend another brand, I’m just here to tell you that your next EV should be anything other than a Tesla.
For recommendations, in the States, Porsche and Lucid are the best you can get. You have a lot more options for electric vehicles outside of the US, in say, Australia or the UK, because of Chinese brands.
Chinese brands are affordable because they pay their workers slave wages. Fuck off with that.
Yeah, I have to say, the Brazil BYD thing is pretty bad, there is no way around it.
Yes there fucking is: don’t buy Chinese EV brands unless you’re into slavery and IP theft.
What if I’m into IP theft and not slavery?
Then your options are limited to other post-bloc Eastern European manufacturers.
You’ve interpreted the phrase “…there no way around it” incorrectly. It means “it can’t be excused / you have to face the fact”.
BYD should get punished by Brazil for what they did, but using that to call an entire country slaves and thieves is a bit much. Too ScoMo-esque.
How do you think China was able to catch up in manufacturing technologies so rapidly in the late 90’s and early 2000’s then?
so wage theft and prison labor is somehow better ?
That’s very noble of you. I assume you are also extra cautious in not buying clothes made in Bangladesh etc?
Do they really they really pay their workers less, in PPP terms, than US companies?