I don’t mean to be a pessimist, but Tesla doesn’t care about car sales. Their chief moneymaker is selling Tesla tokens to Wall Street, which do not correlate with Tesla’s company performance in any meaningful way.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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I'm still happy to see his sales numbers dwindling. If he loses the consumer market, it will still be a big loss regardless what idiocy Wall Street gets up to.
If you buy a Tesla post Nazi Musk, you are a Nazi supporter.
I don't understand this hate just because musk came out as a Nazi.
The cars were awful even before all of this, you should have already not been buying them. To get them repaired you have to take them to an authorised dealer which is basically just them, and they will charge you on obscene amount of money to replace the door handles or something, add onto that poor quality control and a prevalence to put everything behind a paywall and you've got a terrible value product on your hands.
To get them repaired you have to take them to an authorised dealer which is basically just them
Meh, not entirely true though. Anything related to "regular" car parts like brakes, suspension etc. can be fixed by any regular mechanic. As for things like handles, you can actually also just order the part from them and have any mechanic change itif you can't/won't do it yourself.
Yes there are things you unfortunately would need them for, but most of the things that tend to break or wear out are regular car parts anyone can fix.
According to my neighbour who owns a Tesla he had to take it to a Tesla dealership in order to replace one of the headlights because there are non-standard design. So even if he could get the part from Tesla the mechanic wouldn't have been able to change it because they wouldn't have the tools.
The few things I needed repaired on my model 3 was just fixed by my local mechanic, who also did the yearly brake-maintenance. Once I bought original parts from Tesla and had my own mechanic change it, but they've also used 3rd party unoriginal parts they sourced themselves without issues.
I don't know which model your neighbor has, but for model 3 at least there are lights from 3rd party manufacturers available.
It's almost impressive how tesla has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.