Fred Lambert - You have gone too far!

[StealthP3D]

This is what Fred Lambert is mostly interested nowadays: Fred Lambert. Too much drinking his own Kool aid. There´s a reason Elon Musk gets interviewed by MKBHD instead
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Well, if that look is from drinking kool-aid, it had to be the real deal, the electric kool-aid! He's almost melting off the hood of that car as he stares off into space with a shitty little grin on his chops...

Too bad he's not a real journalist.

 

[alcibiades]

It's weird how Fred's view on Tesla changed once he finally got a Tesla.

I can relate.

 

[Electroman]

Today's click bait headline from Fred:

Tesla (TSLA) appoints new CFO and CAO in finance team shakeup

Shakeup? really?

 

[googlepeakoil]

The problem was 80% of his headlines used to be about Tesla - not about the other cars, and always very favourable. I was giving up on the site more for that.
But he's being a bit more honest now that Tesla and Elon in particular are doing it's own job of causing negative headlines. A lot of the other journalists don't know about the more under-hand tactics...
Elon (in a post) talking about a sniff test a few years ago - about pricing being honest and saying it's got to be honourable... then doing:
1. Take $5k for FSD. Tell people it'll cost $6k if bought in the future. Making unrealistic assumptions about the delivery. Take it off the website for 6 months. Rearange the features. Then drop the price to $3k for a week - it's still 6 months+ from delivery. Don't offer a refund - just invite the people to be beta testers. Say can't refund as that would break Tesla. What? 10,000 people getting $2k difference back?!? That would not break Tesla. Putting the price up doesn't make it 100% right either. It still "was" cheaper.
2. Closing stores. No warning to staff. Then changing tactic. A totally rushed tactic. Then finding out about $1.3bn in lease obligations!
3. Forcing out the retail staff and cutting their bonuses (so they quit rather than get severance).
4. the 7% lay-offs this year. The excellent Wired article from a few months ago talks about him brutally firing people.
5. Tesla also used to sell a battery lock upgrade from 60kW to 75kW for $6000 or something (forget the exact figures) but when it came to the end of the quarter crashed the price by 75% to $1500.
6. Tesla also recently cut the international price of the Ludicrous S and X by $70-100k - and that drop is not all because of taxes. The UK P100L went from £134k to £84k. It still is - until Monday. You don't honour the first adopters with this kind of cuts. People losing 30% when they drive it out the showroom is expected. But not 40% overnight on top! Maybe drop it like in the US, by 10k - then 3 months later another 10k. Somebody who bought the car a week before saw the price go from £134k to a 2nd hand value below £70k. The cuts in the US were only about $12k max. If they'd been as heavy there'd be a lot more ill-feeling.

 

[Electroman]

A lot of the other journalists don't know about the more under-hand tactics...

You are attributing malice to what I think is plain 'driving by the seat of the pants' without thinking too much.

The whole store closing announcement fiasco and AP price drop is an example.

 

[R.S]

Well, since his articles were rather positive once and then changed, we have to ask what happened?

And that’s easy, they ended the referral program!

If wanted, or not, Tesla basically payed the EV bloggers and YouTubers good money for writing about them. 2 Roadsters are 500k dollar. And Fred “earned” that in about half a year. That’s good money for writing articles on a pretty niche car blog. More than he would have ever made with the website alone.

Now that that’s gone, he mich have felt to up the pressure on Tesla. And what happened? Referrals are back. And the prices are again benefiting the blogs.

1000 miles of SC credit is nothing, but those bloggers will probably win many of those prices, just because they refer so many cars. So I guess Fred has won and will soon be more favorable towards Tesla again.

 

[Buckminster]

Lol, that twitter thread is hilarious! My comments favorite comments so far are:

• Please please please send Fred's free referrel roadster to space, so many of us in the Tesla community are asking for it
• Available for pickup only in space
• I know of two roadsters that can be used as dead weight on a future flight.

redFay, Ya Burnt!

Cheers!

 

[SPadival]

Hey! I own the trademark on Fwed jokes about launching his roadster to space

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I bet Elon has a special loot box for Fred which will say:


“Congratulations, we will now launch both of your roadsters in a time capsule to space”

Another variation:
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I don't think Fred "Whiney" Lambert has read the Non-Disparagement clause in the $TSLA referral program Ts&Cs:


"Clause 2.1: If you disparage Tesla in any manner, your referral prize(s) will be launched into space in the next available SpaceX mission"

S Padival on Twitter

 

[Electroman]

Hey! I own the trademark on Fwed jokes about launching his roadster to space

S Padival on Twitter



Another variation:
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S Padival on Twitter

I thought there was a clause in the referral program that Tesla has the right to refuse these awards if they found out that the customer got these referrals in bad faith, or harmed the company. Tesla can easily screw this guy.

 

[bro1999]

Don't worry, Insideevs has usurped the Tesla cheerleader crown from Fred! They must now be getting bankrolled by pro-TSLA peeps, because they do nothing but shower praise on Tesla now.

 

[StealthP3D]

Don't worry, Insideevs has usurped the Tesla cheerleader crown from Fred! They must now be getting bankrolled by pro-TSLA peeps, because they do nothing but shower praise on Tesla now.

I don't follow either religiously but it seems to me that Tesla has earned most of the praise that I've seen "showered" upon them.

When you make amazing, world-leading products and continually improve them (for free) you probably deserve the praise that is showered upon you. Tesla is not perfect (and the other manufacturers are far from it also), but their achievements certainly stand above the rest in dramatic and obvious ways.

 

[R.S]

Don't worry, Insideevs has usurped the Tesla cheerleader crown from Fred! They must now be getting bankrolled by pro-TSLA peeps, because they do nothing but shower praise on Tesla now.

I don’t know, or really care how positive insideevs writes about Tesla. But what I have noticed, is that they have tons of pointless Tesla articles (simulated Roadster 2 vs simulated dragster) and they seem to be pushing more non Tesla articles to Motor1.

So it kind of seems like they want to move into Electreks very Tesla focused business model, but Cleantechnica has had that transformation already.

It’s bad if you want a site with just real EV news, but I guess there are some Tesla fans, that will click every article with Tesla in the headline.

 

[StealthP3D]

So it kind of seems like they want to move into Electreks very Tesla focused business model, but Cleantechnica has had that transformation already.

It’s bad if you want a site with just real EV news, but I guess there are some Tesla fans, that will click every article with Tesla in the headline.

There's no doubt that Tesla offers the most inspiring battery electric cars (by far). I wish the other competitive offerings were more available and more competitive but (as of 2019) they are not even widely available. And I think this has led you to conclude that these publications are "Tesla focussed" when the truth is, they cover what the public wants. For example, I was interested in the Hyundai Kona but I can't even buy one in Washington State! Most people have very little interest in reading about cars they can't even buy. Nevertheless, all of the publications mentioned have written about the Hyundai Kona. But the fact that they don't write about Hyundai as much as Teslas (which are actually widely available) is understandable.

 

[R.S]

There's no doubt that Tesla offers the most inspiring battery electric cars (by far). I wish the other competitive offerings were more available and more competitive but (as of 2019) they are not even widely available. And I think this has led you to conclude that these publications are "Tesla focussed" when the truth is, they cover what the public wants. For example, I was interested in the Hyundai Kona but I can't even buy one in Washington State! Most people have very little interest in reading about cars they can't even buy. Nevertheless, all of the publications mentioned have written about the Hyundai Kona. But the fact that they don't write about Hyundai as much as Teslas (which are actually widely available) is understandable.

Honestly, there is no reason to publish articles about videos of simulated races between a non existent vehicle and some other vehicle. Or the hundredth sentry Mode video. But when Audi officials talk about replacing the A8 and TT with electric successors, or Opel releases the Corsa as an electric vehicle, they just link to Motor1.

They still have articles about other EVs than Tesla. But I still wonder where this is leading.

If you decide publishing a totally pointless article about a totally pointless video, but not one about the release of a new electric car (even if you can only buy it in Europe), then it’s pretty clear where the real focus is.

Soon you will find more EV news on the old mainstream car websites, while the EV sites move more and more to Tesla opinion pieces and Tesla related “car porn”.

Maybe that’s also part of the problem, that you can only carve out your niche, if you make it smaller and EVs are big enough now, to not be a niche anymore. But for someone who only wants relevant EV news, I really dislike this trend.

 

[commasign]

All I can say is that cleantechnica is my new hero:

Some Environmentalists Are Being Punked Regarding Tesla | CleanTechnica

The Media's Story About Tesla Is Wrong, Facts Tell Another | CleanTechnica

 

[Beltsbear]

Fred just posted another Tesla fire.

 

[Doggydogworld]

All I can say is that cleantechnica is my new hero:

Some Environmentalists Are Being Punked Regarding Tesla | CleanTechnica

The Media's Story About Tesla Is Wrong, Facts Tell Another | CleanTechnica

I didn't read the first article, but the second has a bunch of errors. CleanTechnica is hardly a reliable source of "Facts".

 

[Garlan Garner]

I've found almost everything on his site to be very click baity and whiney recently as well.

So does that mean that you read everything on his site?


There is a top politician that doesn't mind if his news is good or bad or......whatever......He just wants his name mentioned every day at all times......
If only I could remember his name...…….

lol.

 

[Garlan Garner]

I didn't read the first article, but the second has a bunch of errors. CleanTechnica is hardly a reliable source of "Facts".

Who is a reliable source of Facts in your opinion?

Is Tesla a reliable source of Facts?

Is Elon a reliable source of Facts?

...just wondering.....

 

[Electroman]

If only I could remember his name...…….

I wish history forgets him as an aberration.