Old Henry Ford did go on to provide some pretty decent assistance to fight the Nazis you know.
When shown the error of his anti Semitic ways.
Volkswagen was Hitlers baby.
Probably takes being a bit of a facist to run a car business.
Teslas are just synonymous with Musk and Musk is a bit of a tool.
Could also think the same about someone clad in Hugo Boss for work or perhaps hitting the gym in some Adidas or Puma. Except like Ford those companies have moved on….
Toyota are doing a good job these days of destroying their reputation and brand name.
I owned a Ford but Henry had been pushing up daisy’s for a long time. I was planning to buy a Tesla but will not now because of Musk. Now looking at a Kia. You get a pass though Bacchus as you had yours a long time before Musk went crazy (crazier mayber)
Seriously have you driven the Kia ? Before I got my Tesla I tested 8 different EVs. It was actually fun, and I had time to do it. Tesla was easily the best for me, and it makes no difference to me what Musk does. Anyway drive as many as you can, they all have differences.
In any case, Musk will be a fleeting phenomenon. Trump will tire of him, USA will tire of him and Musk will tire of the whole pantomime when he finds he has no real power.
Haven’t driven one yet but will. The Kia i find the most interesting, it has 2 mandatory’s for me, not Musk and not Chinese. I will be chacking them all out. The thing that worries me re the Chinese ones is rust as I am down the beach a lot.
Kia’s also feel like a car inside. Tesla interiors look like someone has stolen everything except for an iPad. The fact everything is controlled by that touchscreen, dealbreaker for me. And they’re ugly cars to look at too.
I much prefer to have the instrument panel with the critical information directly in front of me. I am old and don’t want to be turning my head all the time lol. The Teslsa is a fine peice of engineering but a bit plain an basic for me., sort of like an old Ford Falcon. I do tend to buy things with all the extra’s though and end up using none of them.
Trouble is, Henry is long dead. Musk isn’t. Yet.
Like Tesla’s share price. This is what happened to it since Musk bought the presidency:
Looks like he has lost about half of his net wealth. If his grifting in the govt to get contracts and to sack people who were going to investigate his companies doesn’t work, he will be a fleeting phenomenon. Hopefully best remembered in the naming of laws preventing people from doing this shît again.
Interesting times for the US auto industry, prolonged tariffs will damage Ford and GM to the point theat it puts the companies at risk of falling over. A lot of jobs in the auto industry are at risk. Can Tesla survive the damage Elon is doing? All the other EV companies will see it as a opportunity to kill the Tesla brand. The other brands have caught right up to Telsa and are now producing cars that are more innovating and cheaper. Lots of jobs could disappear in the next 12 months because of the clown show at the Whitehouse.
tesla needs some kind of efficiency department to find and fire whatever is impacting their share price, reckon a 5 year old can write the algo to figure it out, unfortunately he will no doubt get billions more in rewards instead
Plus FBT I would’ve thought.
Yes FBT exempt on EV’s.
I was just listing a couple of tips/benefits I dont think have been mentioned in this thread.
https://www.motor1.com/news/753339/ev-startup-longbow-revive-lightweight-british-sports-car/
Nice looking car on the way
Should be for the price. Reckon there wont be much change from $200,000 here.
I’ve had my Zeekr X for a couple of weeks now. It was the first only X in QLD when I registered it. Pretty sure its still the only one up here in Brisneyland.
Loving the car. It’s a complete shift in mentality driving an EV.
Would drive an Inster as a run about if I could swing at home charging.
Trouble is I can see all small city cars struggling without better public charging facilities.
I hear this a lot but in reality I havent experienced any issue with the chargers I have used so far (I havent started home charging yet). I’ve done 5 charging sessions already and there has not been more than 1 car at a charging bank of 4 to 6 chargers at any time I have been there.
I’m not sure where this lack of charging myth comes from. Even when I look at only the EVIE charging network which I get free charging on, there are available chargers everywhere.
Expand that to all chargers and there are hundreds of them along my daily driving routes and now that I am looking and taking notice I realise they are completely empty 90% of the time.
Where does the ‘lack of charging infrastructure’ idea come from? Is it from your experience or what you have seen/heard from media?
I just did a search with the plugshare app. There are 25 compatible plug types within a 3km radius of my house and I’m 25km south of Brisbane.
Of the 25, 23 are available.
This is interesting and I think it highlights just how much mis-information is out there.
There are around 7000 petrol stations in Australia and over 2000 charging sites (with that number rapidly increasing - the number of sites doubled in 2023 alone).
Obviously, each petrol station on average probably has around 8 bowsers.
Most charging sites I have seen have between 2 to 6 plugs. Lets go low and say the average is only 2 per site.
So, we probably have around 15 times as many petrol pumps as EV chargers.
But, the number of EV’s registered at the end of 2023 was 1% of the total. So there are 100 times the amount of ICE cars vs EV’s on the road.
Per car, there are far more EV chargers than petrol pumps and that gap will rapidly expand over the next couple of years.
