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I hope Elon can navigate forks in the road better than the cars from his company can
My guess is he’ll run head first into a wall. Meep meep.
Tesla would be smart to split up their product line into into different corporations and block Musk from involvement.
Their supercharger network is big enough that it could be its own company, especially now that other non-Tesla vehicles can charge at them. It’s basically the EV version of an international gas station chain at this point.
Their Powerwall & Megapack solutions are also a separate product line that could be spun off (along with whatever solar products they have).
When most people think of Tesla these days they mostly think of the cars, and Musks association with it has clearly caused significant harm to that product line. By rebranding the supercharger network and storage business and removing any association with Musk they at least have a chance to see those products succeed without the negative stigma he brings.
I do think it’s too late for the Tesla EV’s though, unless the Tesla board of directors makes major leadership changes. And I don’t see that happening any time soon.
With Tesla’s stock and brand reputation getting pummeled ... many Tesla investors have called on Musk to scale back or end his government work entirely and return his focus to business
As long as he's associated with Tesla, even if he steps out of government work, the damage is done. Even if the board boots him as CEO, it's going to take a LOT of work, PR, outreach, and time to undo the stink Musk has left on the company.
Never forgive Tesla
Not in this lifetime for me, though the world has generally forgiven the auto brands who helped run the Axis Powers war machine like BMW, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, etc.
Tesla could do a complete about-face, oust Musk and his cronies, start adhering to better market practices, and build themselves back up as a reputable brand. But not for a long while.
Better that there actually be a better path to take which could lead somewhere in the future, otherwise they may as well double down on his stupidity and profit while they can before the whole company just implodes.
I mean... Volkswagen was created by literal Nazis...
Hey, now. Nikola Tesla did nothing wrong.
They'll probably just retire the brand, slap on a new name and logo and keep business as usual and just have Muskrat in the background like some sort of evil wizard, like Saruman casting spells from his dark cave and collecting money
VW managed to transition from nazi image to hippies.
Not just VW; lots of European brands (and some American!) have successfully managed to atone (or bury, depending on how charitable you feel) their actions before and during WWII.
If a company is older than a century, look at their history and see how many of them kinda pretend they didn't exist from 1930-1945.
Lots of good points being made, however, there's a point in time where it stops mattering entirely. Holding a company responsible for its acts during WW2 is no different than holding the current German govt responsible for the Holocaust. We are at the point where the company that exists today is run by people with zero (or very few) ties to the people who ran those companies during WW2.
As mentioned, VW is one such company. The VW that ran during WW2 was completely shredded. VW today only exists thanks to the British who decided to resurrect it.
Saruman at least had charisma and was a badass. Musk is more of a Wormtongue type.
Be the Ents you want to see in the world
burárum intensifies
And their valuation will go in the crapper. musk IS Tesla. Without him, how do you rationalize that insane P/E?
Is Elon going to pretend he's not a nazi with a breeding cult when he "gets out of government?" Big doubts on convincing shareholders they want cars that fall apart and are synonymous with nazis and mass, AI generated firing programs.
Ikr, like if the only problem is that he has no time to be Tesla's CEO and "getting out of government" would solve things.
Pretty sure when they say 'end his government work they actulu mean 'shut the fuck up and stay out of the news'
Serious question: With a gutted SEC, a corrupt supreme court and a Presidential pardon presumably in the wings, what's stopping Tesla from just lying like all fuck on their quarterly reports?
US securities fraud was rampant at the best of times. Now, I have not the words to describe what is being done.
They're literally making up mileage numbers to commit warranty fraud and trying to scam ev incentives from the Canadian government. There is zero chance Tesla's sales and revenue numbers are accurate.
Maybe President Musk can just tell secretary Trump to pull some strings and make sure his best buddies at the courts turn a blind eye to all of these shenanigans.
That's not enough.
It doesn't matter if Musk stops his MAGA antics overnight; as long as this disgusting South African Nazi owns even one share of Tesla, I ain't buying a car for them.
If Tesla ever wants me to even consider one of their vehicles, they have to ditch the sumbitch.
Fire Elon
Time for Elon to get forked.
Fork Elon
Lets get a fork of Elon before he went crazy and was just another angel investor?
It seems as though the greatest enhancement of efficiency for the sake of value Tesla could do is get rid of Musk. That would be some beautiful poetry, but we don't live in the good timeline where karma is real. We live in the timeline where the villain always wins. :/
Either he keeps being himself and the stock tanks or he leaves Tesla and the stock tanks. Tesla loses either way.