General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread
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Must was in a foul mood because Cyber Truck delivery event was going to further expose him as king of Vaporware.
Truck’s base model is $20,000 more for the base model than the 39,000 that he promised. Range is less than half of the 500 miles that he promised. To get to 350 mile range, you have to buy a removable battery pack that eats up space in the bed of the truck.
This is a janky ass product and I love it.
Truck’s base model is $20,000 more for the base model than the 39,000 that he promised. Range is less than half of the 500 miles that he promised. To get to 350 mile range, you have to buy a removable battery pack that eats up space in the bed of the truck.
This is a janky ass product and I love it.
What’s the vaporware you speak of? Explain? Cyber truck was ass cheeks from the jump… shyt will only be offered in the U.S. market lmaoo..Must was in a foul mood because Cyber Truck delivery event was going to further expose him as king of Vaporware.
Truck’s base model is $20,000 more for the base model than the 39,000 that he promised. Range is less than half of the 500 miles that he promised. To get to 350 mile range, you have to buy a removable battery pack that eats up space in the bed of the truck.
Rivian EV pickup is the best selling amongst EV trucks..
Build a pick up truck that can't fit a bicycle in the back boer crehs.
Also, the stainless steel that the "genius" insists on using does not absorb the energy from wrecks as well as regular steel. "Stainless steel is much stiffer than the ordinary stuff, which makes it dangerous. Since the 1950s at least, automakers have understood that stiffer cars are more dangerous to people inside and outside the car, because in a crash they deliver energy to other parties rather than absorbing it."
It's as if his FSD wasn't killing enough people. What a fukking a$$hole.
Also, the stainless steel that the "genius" insists on using does not absorb the energy from wrecks as well as regular steel. "Stainless steel is much stiffer than the ordinary stuff, which makes it dangerous. Since the 1950s at least, automakers have understood that stiffer cars are more dangerous to people inside and outside the car, because in a crash they deliver energy to other parties rather than absorbing it."
It's as if his FSD wasn't killing enough people. What a fukking a$$hole.
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The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans
Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money.
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'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla
After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it's seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.By Jules Roscoe
November 29, 2023, 4:03pm
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The United Auto Workers plans to unionize a dozen U.S. and foreign automakers, including Tesla Motors, in an organizing campaign encompassing “thousands” of workers, the union stated in an announcement on Wednesday. The campaign follows the UAW’s successful strike in its contract negotiations with Big Three automakers over the last months, in which workers won raises of up to 33 percent.
“To all the autoworkers out there working without the benefits of a union, now it’s your turn,” said UAW president Shawn Fain in a video released on Wednesday. “Go to uaw.org/join. The money is there. The time is right. And the answer is simple. You don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck. You don’t have to worry about how you’re going to pay your rent or feed your family while the company makes billions. A better life is out there.” The release stated that thousands of non-union workers were already signing union pledge cards on the website.
The companies that the union plans to organize include Mercedes Benz, Toyota, and Tesla, as well as other companies in the EV sector. After the UAW strike concluded, Toyota and other manufacturers raised their wages by around 10 percent, which Fain called the “UAW bump.”
Workers at Tesla in the U.S. are not unionized, though some facilities have made initial efforts towards organizing and faced retaliation for doing so. They had thus far not been affected by the strike.
However, Tesla repair technicians in Sweden went on strike earlier this month after Elon Musk refused to meet and bargain with their union. German automotive sectoral unions have also been working to unionize Tesla's gigafactory in the country, and won workers a four percent pay raise after holding informational events about unionization in the factory. Labor experts told Motherboard at the time that the surge of Tesla labor organizing in Europe, combined with the UAW’s success in the U.S., could open doorways for U.S. Tesla workers to organize.
“Unions are organized on an international level,” said Branislav Rugani, the international confederal secretary for French trade union Force Ouvrière, in a phone call to Motherboard at the time. “They talk amongst themselves. When they return to their respective countries, they organize on a local level.”
The UAW’s drive is expected to cover almost 150,000 auto workers across “at least thirteen” companies, the union’s press release stated. It named as targets the German automakers Volkswagen, Mercedes, and BMW; the Asian automakers Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai, Subaru, and Mazda; and the EV automakers Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.
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Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X
Walmart said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
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Phony Stark bout to hit the drug addict part of the story. I expect a stay in rehab soon. I'm sure Tesla shareholders are loving the potential drop in stock price that might happen because the boss doesn't know when to shut up
Tesla Shipments to Sweden Are Under Threat Across the Nordics
Tesla Inc.’s deliveries to Sweden are at risk of being blocked from across the Nordic region after unions asked their neighboring peers to bolster their weeks-long strike.
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Tesla Shipments to Sweden Are Under Threat Across the Nordics
- Danish workers refuse to transport company’s EVs to Sweden
- Elon Musk has described the labor dispute as ‘insane’
A banner from IF Metall union reading "We Demand a Collective Agreement" during a labor protest outside the Tesla Inc. service center in Segeltorp, Sweden, on Dec. 5.Photographer: Erik Flyg/Bloomberg
By Christian Wienberg and Jonas Ekblom
December 5, 2023 at 3:15 AM EST
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December 5, 2023 at 6:59 AM EST
Tesla Inc.’s deliveries to Sweden are at risk of being blocked from across the Nordic region after unions asked their neighboring peers to bolster their weeks-long strike.
Harbor workers and drivers at the Danish union 3F will stop offloading and transporting Tesla cars to Sweden in about two weeks, according to a statement issued Tuesday. This will prevent Tesla from circumventing a blockade by Swedish dockworkers who’ve halted shipments by sea.
A banner from IF Metall union reading “We Demand a Collective Agreement” outside the Tesla Inc. service center in Segeltorp, Sweden, on Dec. 5.Photographer: Erik Flyg/Bloomberg
In Finland, the Transport Workers’ Union will meet on Thursday to decide how it will respond to Swedish unions asking Nordic peers to join in sympathy actions, a spokeswoman said by phone. Norway’s United Federation of Trade Unions is monitoring the situation, spokesman John Trygve Tollefsen said.
Tesla has for more than a month been locked in a dispute with Swedish labor groups after the carmaker repeatedly refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the union IF Metall. The strike has spread through sympathy actions, stopping the delivery of mail to Tesla as well as trash pickups. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has called the Swedish labor action “insane.”
“Even if you are one of the richest people in the world, you can’t just make your own rules,” Jan Villadsen, the chairman of the 3F union’s transport division, said in the statement. “We have some agreements on the labor market in the Nordics, and you have to comply with them if you want to do business here.”
Read More: How Musk’s Anti-Union Stance Faces Test in Sweden: QuickTake
Sweden is Tesla’s fifth-biggest European market, and signing any agreement with the Swedish unions would set a precedent for the company. Tesla has vehemently opposed unionization efforts in other countries where it operates. Yet collective bargaining agreements are standard practice in Sweden, covering around 90% of all working Swedes.
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Tesla has been fighting back in Sweden, filing two lawsuits to limit the conflict’s impact after the delivery of license plates to its new vehicles stopped. In the first, it won a temporary injunction granting it the right to take delivery of license plates directly from the transport agency’s supplier.
In the second case, a Swedish court is expected to rule on an injunction this week on whether the postal service needs to deliver the plates that are currently stuck in the post.
IF Metall sent an official request for sympathy action to Nordic transport unions last week, after extensive discussions by the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union with counterparts across the region, spokeswoman Elin Lornbo said by phone on Tuesday.
“We have a very deep relationship with them and encouraged them to initiate blockades at ports in their respective countries since it is an effective and permitted form of sympathy action,” she said.
Should all the Nordic transport unions join the blockade, the main route open to Tesla for imports would be by truck from Germany. That’s at least a five-hour drive, one way, with each truck able to transport a handful vehicles.
Sympathy action by trade unions is an accepted part of the Scandinavian labor market, and cross-border strikes are not unheard of. In 2015, Sweden-based pilots joined a walk-out of Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA’s Norway-based pilots.
“Solidarity is the cornerstone of the trade union movement and extends across national borders,” Villadsen from the Danish union said. “The Swedish workers are currently fighting an incredibly important battle.”
— With assistance from Craig Trudell
(Updates with potential Nordic action throughout.)
Elon soul burning so slow that he is going after Paris Hilton now.
