Is Elon Musk hurting Tesla?

Good man yourself, you must take an awful long time to do your weekly shop at that rate 😂

I’m not buying a VW by the way. You made that up to suit your narrative. Please don’t get so offended when I say I think Tesla’s are ugly to look at, have a truly awful interior, and that their owner is a really bad dude. You obviously have a different opinion. That’s ok too.

To be fair I don't know if any other CEO who puts himself out there the way Musk does with deliberately provocative opinions etc.

I think it's valid and fair that people wouldn't want to buy a Tesla as a result of his behaviour and opinions.

Are there other motor group CEOs with equally horrible political opinions and behaviours, of course, but they don't buy twitter and ram those opinions down everyone's throat every day of the week.

I do find it utterly bizarre about how such an awful human being as Musk inspires such blind devotion from his online disciples.

The dude gives a platform to people like Alex Jones and Andrew Tate. He’s truly awful.

Ya, twas like your man a few pages back saying he wouldn't buy one because of Musk but sees no problem using Twitter. 🤣

Will be interesting when all the Tesla chargers open up to see where the morals lie. Hypocrites.

Yes, I believe that people like Alex Jones and Andrew Tate are better off not having a platform to spread their hate. Absolute free speech is a fallacy. Jones was the charmer who claimed a school shooting was fake. Repugnant and sociopathic.

Won't be a problem for me. I have a charger in my garage and I do not have a twitter account and have no interest in it regardless of who is its owner.

I will re-iterate again I bought my Mustang Mach E after I had the chance to really check it out and a Telsa given I have neighbours who have each car and the Mustang was easily the choice for me. The fact that Telsa's owner is a truly odious human being is one thing lots of people are not so pleasant shall we say. The difference is that Musk is using his power and position at actively spread hate racism and violence and doing it in the here and now. I do try and spend my money when buying products and or services on companies that act in a positive manner and are trying to be positive companies be it the environment, their employees, their suppliers etc. But there is no question if you wanted to do a dive into almost any company there would be bad things there. All I can do is the best I can and Musk well it doesn't get any more in your face then him.

As a quick happy aside Bailey's became a B corp just over a year ago. Doesn't make it taste any better but it makes the purchase of it a little sweeter:)

I couldn’t give a shïte what sort of car a total stranger wants to buy. I’d prefer not to be called a hypocrite for pointing out that lots of people won’t buy a Tesla because Musk is the public face of the company and is a truly appalling individual. That the cars have panel gaps, plasticy interior and reliability issues are more reasons.

You aren't being the hypocrite in this situation. The individual who may or may not be lecturing you for not buying a car brand because of CEO reasons, when they themselves won't touch a brand due to CEO/reasons might possibly be ;)

and your point is in regards to what I said above in terms of me buying a Mustang over a Telsa? For fullness my other considered EV's at the time were a Volvo and a Volkswagen.