Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.
Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.
Dunno why reports continue to blame the sales on the styling of the cars instead of the fact that the very public CEO of the company, who is kind of inseparable from the whole brand, is polarizing to say the very least.
Tesla cars look fine. Genuinely they do. They’ve stuck with their own design language so that their cars are apparently “Tesla” on the road, and that kind of brand recognition is something designers spend their whole lives trying to create. You recognize them, like an Apple product. Sure, 15 years ago, everyone was trying to copy Apple and Apple’s own image suffered a bit from design oversaturation, but they pushed through it, waited out the trends and for the competition to move onto the next thing, and held their ground and kept a good-looking, consistent lineup. Tesla is basically the same.
Tl;dr: it aint the cosmetics
They are also overpriced trash.
Eh they look like trash but are so common now and the other manufacturers have made copy cats. But you’re right.
I disagree but that’s just my opinion. I love Ramsian design and the (exterior of) Tesla’s do it well. The new Prius is good too but gets a bit too futuristic to call it Ramsian.
Either way, my point is that most of the copy cats have moved on to other designs, “trend chasing.” Yeah, a couple years ago every automaker was ripping off Tesla, but I don’t see that anymore, they’re going towards a more 80s angular look. What I’m saying is that Tesla’s maintained their design language really well. That’s not a fault, it’s a success. Tesla cars are apparently Tesla on the road, just like an iPhone is obviously an iPhone and not one of the thousands of iPhone copycats that were on the market ~10 years ago or how a Starbucks is obviously a Starbucks, and not one of the thousands of wood-toned internet cafes that came up a few decades ago.