Is Elon Musk hurting Tesla? (Mod Note Post #1)

Oh dear; I think that answers the thread question.

there’s honestly no need to be insulting. The post is in English - it refers to the Tesla share price. Look it up.

As for the Tesla sales, they are the 21st top selling car brand in Ireland for Jan and Feb - a 30% movement off such small numbers isn’t unusual, it’s just statistics.

I look at them rationally, you look at them as some sort of dawn of a new age.

If you are referring to Tesla stock, you're wrong there as well, in February 2021 the share price was hovering about the $200-$250, yesterday it closed at $279.60, which is between 11% and 39% higher depending on what date in February you purchased stock. Ireland sales probably won't be too bad but almost every other European market will likely see sales drop significantly so I would expect the share price to collapse around April when EOQ results are in. Shares are a mugs game anyway

I look at all EVs as being the dawn of a new age like most people in fairness.

There's loads of news stories and videos of Cybertrucks, from an owners club, being booed and having stuff thrown at them in a pre-Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. One of the infamous bulletproof windows was even broken by Mardi Gras beads.

What are you talking about - anyone can google the TEsla share price and see the actual drop in February.
A month ago the price was $378 - down 28%

Polestar taking advantage of discontent Tesla owners.

https://insideevs.com/news/752184/polestar-3-tesla-lease-deal/

Last week, Polestar announced a special $5,000 discount for Tesla drivers looking to lease the company's new Polestar 3 crossover. With that deal and another $15,000 of incentives to lessees, Tesla owners could get a $20,000 lease discount to become ex-Tesla owners. 

On Friday, the brand's U.S. head of sales said in a LinkedIn post: "This week saw some of the highest order days for Polestar 3, and the response to our Tesla Conquest Offer has been incredible."

I'll repeat your original comment below

interesting aside - if you bought TSLA in Feb 2021, you’re currently down. It’s really been quite a rollercoaster.

When you specified "Feb 2021" I presume you meant the month of February in the year 2021. Silly me

I don't see that offer available here. Polestar 3 starts at €94.5k so a different market to Tesla I'd argue. Best not talk about the owner of Polestar either if you want people to change to your brand due to Musk

I wonder are owners of other car companies praying that their CEOs don't go full nutjob, or would they even care

Tesla isn't an Ireland only car.

I'm going to put you on ignore for a while as I feel you're being pointlessly defensive about something that's beyond our control.

I did the same yesterday

I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt the likes of Vanguard or Blackrock would want to endure unrelenting investigations and audits from the IRS, given Musks grip on the Oval Office.

It's true that any CEO can become unhinged like Musk, however I can't think of a CEO of a car manufacturing company or multinational that it has happened to, and if it did, I have no doubt the respective board of directors or shareholders would act swiftly and decisively.

The Tesla board is stacked with Musk's close associates. Vanguard and Blackrock along with a decent chunk of retail investors could vote to replace the current board with a hostile board who could get rid of Musk but it's a moonshot. I doubt Blackrock's Larry Fink, or the Vanguard CEO wants to be in the US presidents crosshairs. As far as I'm concerned, they're all psychopaths, and each of them is extremely dangerous in their own right.

February figures in for Germany.

Just 1,429 of the US group's electric vehicles were registered in Europe's biggest auto market in February, down over 76 percent year-on-year, the KBA federal transport authority said.

In February, a total of around 36,000 battery-powered vehicles were registered in Germany, around 31 percent more than in the same month last year.

https://www.barrons.com/news/tesla-sales-in-germany-fall-76-in-february-9fb92a0d

Apologize for what exactly? From chatting to the reps there's no shortage of orders on the books and there only growing.

have you tried ordering one, I have. Loads of Y’s sold, was a que when I was in the showroom. Not sure about the 3 but I was advised a month or two today when enquiring.
I wouldn’t get too concerned about what it appears Germany or France are doing from news reports as it’s probably not what’s happening.

No I believe them to be correct, context is missing though, there’s a model changeover for their most popular car, if you put a deposit down today in Germany for a Y you can possibly have one in June.
That’s not a collapse in sales it’s a backlog in production from so many orders.
The news want you to believe it’s because of an everyone hates Elon mentality, that’s simple not true. It’s propaganda.

Also, the average Irish citizen couldn't care less what Musk or Trump do or don't do, and have no interest in virtue signalling by boycotting a brand.