Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

  • jocanib@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 years ago

    many years now

    This appears to be an escalating fraud, affecting newer models more than old. So I’d guess that’s ^^ the answer.

    It’s not just a Reuters investigation, they’ve been fined by a few jurisdictions and they absolutely do have the ability to pay lawyers to defend those charges if they’re false.

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        2 years ago

        Yeah, Doctorow is a good writer, but sometimes he thinks he understands stuff but he doesn’t really.

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          The only mention of half range did specify winter conditions.

          The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.

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          But yet everybody will still suck his dick and post the same enshittification essay like he’s some prophet.