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I'm kinda conflicted about this. On the one hand, selling a car takes time and energy, and might not necessarily be feasible to do in just a few months, especially since the market for em is going to SUCK. On the other hand, if you continue to drive a car from a company owned by a literal Nazi once you know, then... well I don't feel too bad for you.
I switched to EVs in 2014, and went fully electric in 2018. My problem is that there still isn't a good alternative I can use for long distance trips for my family of 7. I'd love to switch to something like the Kia EV9, but I almost have my current car paid off, and can't afford another $80k car. I'm conflicted, because I don't want to switch back to a gas car, and I believe my current power company is on track to be 50% sustainable/renewable in 5-10 years. I feel like it could take me years as opposed to months to find a replacement EV that works for me.
Rent a van the few times you need one
... What tesla are you fitting 7 people into these days?
Because they only have one vehicle that isn't a sedan and... he was a full mask off hatemonger long before the cybertruck actually hit market.
The only 7-seater available in 2018 was the Model X. Yes, it was clear he was an asshole as far back as 2018, but he was still a huge proponent of mitigating climate change (in hindsight it was clearly a grift for him), so at the time I thought it was a net positive. I used up a lot of my savings to afford it, so it would be difficult for me to switch to anything that isn't a gas car.
Sell their cars to who BEN? Aquaman?
In the end someone will own the car and be f'ed because of it. The seller will take a huge financial loss because other people think it helps to force people to make bad financial decisions while Tesla already has the money.
Here's the thing, if you own a Tesla, it's already been depreciated through elon's actions. You just haven't realised (in the accounting sense) the loss yet.
The fact is that they are being targeted, so selling now is a method of hedging your losses. The other option is to gamble that you won't be targeted.
Also adding the fact that people almost never purchased a uSED tesla for a reason, because the QC issue crops up, and new drivers are turned away from it. the only time i notice someone getting a used one(is a youtuber trying to mooch off of another ytubers fame., its actually quite sad)
The car still has utility to the person who owns it. It's "real" value is irrelevant to most people so long as it does what it was supposed to do when purchased.
Yeah, Volkswagen is super well known for really caring about emissions.... Cough...
I kinda thought that's what they were getting at, that there are other brands that deserved scorn just as badly, and we generally don't take out our frustrations on the owners.
I think after reading @doughless@lemmy.world 's perspective, I'm certainly a bit more sympathetic. I guess I had a picture in my head about the economic status of the typical Tesla owner that they could probably afford to absorb the loss if they could afford the thing in the first place. I forgot we live in a world where you can finance everything, even your take-out, and that even luxury car owners might be living paycheque to paycheque.
That, and that there are probably quite a few people who got one for environmental reasons who don't deserve to be hurt for what was most likely an innocent mistake.
Ok, so they don't need to get rid of it. Park it, cover with a tarp, and use public transportation. Easy solution.
Sorry if it's inconvenient, but opposing fascism isn't convenient to do.
Hell, if that's too far a bridge, the owner is of course, free to take a can of paint, and put "Elon Musk is a Nazi" on the car. Problem solved.
Man, it certainly does suck that they've opposed public transportation in their community in the past.... starting to see a pattern here.
Once you purchase the vehicle, the damage is already done. There is nothing to gain from busting up cars people already purchased.
That's not correct though. Just like most people don't want a car that'll spontaneously combust, they also don't want a car that will be likely to be vandalised. I'm not saying it's justified, but continued vandalism does lower the utility value of the vehicle and dissuades future purchases of would be buyers.
Carvana takes like... a couple of hours to sell on. Check in hand and all.