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[Electroman]

"Tesla blamed the driver" - LIE. False

The one customer they profiled is a scumbag who tried to hide the accident that damaged the suspension, but Tesla told him to take a hike, backed by their telemetry data. And Reuters conveniently ignores that and makes him as a poster child for "Tesla blames their customers". hit piece.

Reuters then makes up a story of unrelated warranty claims all bundled into, "Teslas are dangerous, suspension bad" story.

 

[DarkandStormy]

"Tesla blamed the driver" - LIE. False

The one customer they profiled is a scumbag who tried to hide the accident that damaged the suspension, but Tesla told him to take a hike, backed by their telemetry data. And Reuters conveniently ignores that and makes him as a poster child for "Tesla blames their customers". hit piece.

Reuters then makes up a story of unrelated warranty claims all bundled into, "Teslas are dangerous, suspension bad" story.

Things Tesla's response does not say:

1) The 5% defect rate cited in the article is inaccurate.

2) We have never charged customers for replacements of parts we knew to be defective.

3) We have never told service employees to push repair costs onto owners.

Btw, the bigger story here is Tesla admitting that they've had suspension issues fixed on at least 2.5% of all Teslas made (real failure is probably higher). That's an absurdly high failure rate on a safety critical component.

 

[israndy]

They admitted to having suspension NOISE issues, not safety issues, read the post. I am assuming you are not a Tesla owner, you'da heard the noise, perhaps your a Tesla hater? Not casting aspersions on your integrity, but your writing is pretty heavy handed, makes me think maybe you're trolling.

 

[Electroman]

.. and Oh, I forgot about the pathetic LYING on the 'most number accidents is on Teslas'. The source that CNBC quoted, they themselves were puzzled and came out strongly refuting that article.

 

[Discoducky]

PSA of how I've been fighting FUD for nearly a year...

Please tag me and add a link to the post if you want something on X to get a Community Note.

It would be helpful if you suggest <280 characters, it is called Community Notes after all

 

[Electroman]

PSA of how I've been fighting FUD for nearly a year...

Please tag me and add a link to the post if you want something on X to get a Community Note.

It would be helpful if you suggest <280 characters, it is called Community Notes after all

Thanks for your service.

 

[willow_hiller]

After reading this, I went to see what happened to the TESLAcharts account. Looks like they stopped posting around mid-2022. Glad that source of FUD appears to be gone:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1742312055250866201

 

[Electroman]

At one time these scums were media darlings. Russ Mitchell @LA Times wrote a FUD piece praising these shorties.

Dana Hull too was courting these low lifes.

Whatever happened to that Skabooksha character?

 

[DarkandStormy]

At one time these scums were media darlings. Russ Mitchell @LA Times wrote a FUD piece praising these shorties.

Dana Hull too was courting these low lifes.

Whatever happened to that Skabooksha character?

https://x.com/skabooshka/status/1653076147721338880

He got Elon to settle. And Elon said he'd never settle an unjust case.

 

[israndy]

It does seem that the media and many of the FUDsters have been seeing more of the reality of EVs than the made up crap we were hearing from them. Sure Consumer's Reports is still cockeyed, r/RealTesla is still full of haters, but I have also read a bunch of fair and balanced stuff, some of it not even on Fox News. And the success of NACS this year and the general acceptance of EVs in the market, it's been lots of good news

 

[Electroman]

https://x.com/skabooshka/status/1653076147721338880

He got Elon to settle. And Elon said he'd never settle an unjust case.

Then why has he been quiet since Tesla sued him?.

He was very active and very vocal in Twitter and elsewhere as an anti Tesla activist for many years, but since that suit he is maintaining radio silence ( except for this one tweet thread). I don’t trust this fraud one bit.

 

[SwTslaGrl]

Debunking EV FUD videos,

 

[Tiger]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1663680976554459136

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1747799017780646218

Sawyer on CNBC singing the virtues of Tesla heat pumps in cold weather plus 99.95% SC uptime.

 

[Tiger]

Never thought there'd ever come a time when Ben Shapiro's interview would be worth watching:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1750311107430851059

 

[B@ndit]

Never thought there'd ever come a time when Ben Shapiro's interview would be worth watching:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1750311107430851059

Don’t worry we’re still not there.

 

[EVMeister]

Don’t worry we’re still not there.

I know very little about Ben Shapiro and quite frankly couldn't care less. I always usually enjoy listening to Elon and Ben seems to be asking some good questions here. Sometimes it's best to take content for what it is and not let your biases cloud your judgement.

 

[Tiger]

I know very little about Ben Shapiro and quite frankly couldn't care less. I always usually enjoy listening to Elon and Ben seems to be asking some good questions here. Sometimes it's best to take content for what it is and not let your biases cloud your judgement.

But Ben does show the video content selectively, like they discussed, "Media chooses what to highlight." Luckily, you can cut and paste an Elon interview many ways without distorting his north star, so long as it's his words.

 

[Tiger]

Good piece of mind:

 

[Tiger]

Maybe Elon is just trying to stretch the overton window so that people dare to behave in public like they do in private, show their true selves (for the better and the worse):

https://twitter.com/x/status/1756125315590734031