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From the article: "About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments."

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[-] MostlyBirds@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

And no one was ever surprised, except for people stupid enough to buy anything from Muskmelon in the first place.

[-] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Musk is a great salesman and a terrible engineer.

[-] MostlyBirds@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

That's honestly an insult to terrible engineers.

Musk is barely on par with a 9-year-old with crayons and construction paper.

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