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Tesla Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) is an energy + technology company originally from California and currently headquartered in Austin, Texas.

They produce electric vehicles (with a heavy focus on autonomy), batteries, and energy/solar products for the grid.

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

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Tesla's Unspoken Demand Problem: Women Don't Want Them (fuelarc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/teslamotors@lemmy.zip

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Here’s an interesting wrinkle as Tesla’s sales plummet worldwide, with European market after European market reporting double-digit sales drops, and the all-important Chinese market showing sudden shakiness.

Only 26% of Tesla buyers in the USA are female, according to the latest data, which is way worse than EVs overall, which already skew much more male than car buyers generally.

We run the numbers and take a couple guesses at the cause.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Elon's a douche
Elon's especially creepy to women
EVs in general are still too expensive

Also, women know a shit "truck" when they see one

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 4 points 5 months ago

Everybody knows a shit truck when they see one, and that thing is an absolute fucking garbage "truck" XD

Also all those things, correct, I'd just invert the order in terms of what is causing the sales dip.

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neither do non-nazi men

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Neither do most nazi men, apparently. Sales are in the shitter, even for the far right. They talk about it, but hardly any of them are actually cutting the check for a shiny new ultra-light-duty luxury pickup truck.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We run the numbers and take a couple guesses at the cause.

Why

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mouse summarizes it cleaner than I do. Just read their comment if you don't got time to read a long and rambling stats analysis:

https://fedia.io/m/teslamotors@lemmy.zip/t/2166979/Tesla-s-Unspoken-Demand-Problem-Women-Don-t-Want-Them/comment/10681838#entry-comment-10681838

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean - agreed. I thought we all knew all that already.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

Surprisingly, several commenters on Reddit thought Teslas were owned by mostly females, just based on them knowing mostly females who drive them. Statistics/sample sizes can be weird that way!