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Indiana_Krom
Jun 18, 2007
Net Slacker

Elviscat posted:

Oh yeah, I got a call yesterday, from the dealership I had so warranty repairs on my Bolt, telling me I need to get the oil changed.

Yeah, I'll get right on that.

Free oil changes for Tesla owners!

* Rich Rebuilds shows up with their diesel swapped Tesla.

And if it was me, I wouldn't even be mad.

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Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
my vw dealer has yet to recommend something dumb like an oil change or similar for my e-golf. I took it to firestone once for an alignment and he said, "all looks good, it's an ev so there isn't much I can try to upsell you on".

trevorreznik
Apr 22, 2023

Indiana_Krom posted:

Also I challenge anyone making a fuel/piss/snack break in an ICE vehicle to start a timer on their phone when they put the vehicle in park and see if it really is under 300 seconds.

You'd be surprised. I use USAA safe pilot which tracks my driving and times, and I went to a gas station, got 7 gallons of gas, checked oil, went inside and bought oil (first time in years needing to do this) and a drink, then added oil and cleaned up. 6 minute total stop. Most would be far less for me.

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!

MrYenko posted:

Nobody reds like Mazda though. It’s a shame about literally everything they make that isn’t the MX5 though.

CX-5/50 is nice for what it is

3 Hatch is nice too, though it's no 11th gen Civic

WTFBEES
Apr 21, 2005

butt

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

Grabber Blue
Soul Red
Midnight Purple

Why even offer any other colors

Excuse me, how dare you:

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
So 10,000 more layoffs this weekend at tesla

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Celexi posted:

So 10,000 more layoffs this weekend at tesla

Move fast and break things, including your own company.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Celexi posted:

So 10,000 more layoffs this weekend at tesla

:stare: poo poo, how much trouble are they in??

I'm seeing a lot of the new model 3s around and they're actually pretty good looking imo.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!



is elon dismantling tesla mad that they were opening the sc network while he was busy with his nazi website or what lmao

trilobite terror
Oct 20, 2007
BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!

Celexi posted:

is elon dismantling tesla mad that they were opening the sc network while he was busy with his nazi website or what lmao

apparently the name of the game here is going after "disloyalty"

he apparently got super pissed at the SC head and fired her + her entire division out of spite after she pushed back against his initial plan of cuts and I can't imagine that that made a workforce that's already probably giving him the side eye a bunch too happy

I'm sure a lot of ppl in the company weren't thrilled about the stupid truck either

Chronojam
Feb 20, 2006

This is me on vacation in Amsterdam :)
Never be afraid of being yourself!


If he's firing people against the cuts, I wonder if that's directly why he fired the people in charge of HR.

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

Mass layoffs are just a really direct way to fix your cost structure. Most of his wealth is in Tesla shares. The most direct thing he can do to boost his wealth is to can people and juice the share price.

Nfcknblvbl
Jul 15, 2002

Vegetable posted:

Mass layoffs are just a really direct way to fix your cost structure. Most of his wealth is in Tesla shares. The most direct thing he can do to boost his wealth is to can people and juice the share price.

This is probably Elon's path to getting the $54bn allowance he feels he deserves.

kill me now
Sep 14, 2003

Why's Hank crying?

'CUZ HE JUST GOT DUNKED ON!
I think Elon just watched the 5th element recently and strongly associated with Jean Baptiste Emmanuel ZORG a bit too much

He’s trying to fire a million employees
https://youtu.be/r0mO6UY6uTg?si=jAg1OTIsccUmnJtO

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
If tesla flames out that seems potentially devastating for EV adoption in north america especially with the other domestics like Ford pulling back.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
nah, evs will be fine. ev1 and its siblings were doing fine at the time with limited rollout before gm executed the program, and now there isn't a single company that can kill them anymore.


Triggerhappypilot
Nov 8, 2009

SVMS-01 UNION FLAG GREATEST MOBILE SUIT

ENACT = CHEAP EUROTRASH COPY




priznat posted:

:stare: poo poo, how much trouble are they in??

I'm seeing a lot of the new model 3s around and they're actually pretty good looking imo.

That's the thing. They're not really in any financial trouble at all. They still posted a profit of over $1bn last quarter.

This is entirely Elon either trying to just slaughter the cow and walk away or hold the company hostage until he gets stock package that would let him retake sole control over the company.

OldSenileGuy
Mar 13, 2001
I have 8 shares of Teslakajigger and I just voted to not give him poo poo

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal
Is there a voting guide somewhere?

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Celexi posted:

is elon dismantling tesla mad that they were opening the sc network while he was busy with his nazi website or what lmao

10 million employees laid off? drat.

InsideEVs has an article saying that they laid off a ton of the SC maintenance staff, so maybe EA will finally have some peer-level competition.

Also:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1786586974108909815?t=ex4JMiHQXeWsPFPMHRnQ1w&s=19

Why the gently caress would you do this?

He follows up by saying that they have to "pay their bills somehow"

Indiana_Krom posted:

Free oil changes for Tesla owners!

* Rich Rebuilds shows up with their diesel swapped Tesla.

And if it was me, I wouldn't even be mad.

Worth it for the joke, for sure. It's not like you're going to get more than one ICE swapped Tesla.

Russian Bear
Dec 26, 2007


A rwd model Y is really tempting wow

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CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Triggerhappypilot posted:

That's the thing. They're not really in any financial trouble at all. They still posted a profit of over $1bn last quarter.

This is entirely Elon either trying to just slaughter the cow and walk away or hold the company hostage until he gets stock package that would let him retake sole control over the company.

This is pretty much like what happened just after the chaos of the Model 3 launch (or somewhere around that point....?) - huge layoffs that turned out to be completely unnecessary and in the end most staff got hired back because they were rather required. The other well known brand that recently had this similar slash and burn (Twitter) had it's headcount culled to 1500, it seem back up to 3300 so..... really just unneeded chaos and uncertainty.

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