Musk scams Tesla owners out of warranty repairs with fake odometer readings

How many times have you driven coast to coast?

 

You can’t track hours/idle for main battery warranty purposes. EVs use the 12v (or in Tesla’s case 48v) system to power accessories. It tops up from the main battery when needed and gets charged while the main battery gets charged but it’s not a representation of car usage.

And why should drive train or bumper to bumper warranty warranties erode for sitting in the car with it “on”? Did the suspension take wear? The motors?

If a manufacturer wanted to have separate warranties for the main battery based on recharge cycles (really should track DC fast charging which is more harmful vs ac charging) and everything else based on miles they could do that. Or total energy delivered. However, they would need to tell consumers ahead of time so they could plan for it.

 

I mean my comments were in reference to separate warranties but I realize I didn't specify that. Somewhat obvious but yes, I should have said as much. I might have assumed batteries and drive Train/motor would automatically been considered separate issues for reasons you stated.

 

Then maybe base the warranty and things on hours of battery usage and not miles. Or a combo of both.

 

Interesting enough it ended up $10 despite drop in sales and a big drop in net income.

The post election pop was well over blown as it was with many stocks.

 

Trading customers down is typically a last ditch effort of a company out of ideas. Usually.

 

I’d worry less about current stock price and more about future. They have no customers. Big problem.

 

If they had committed to it 5 years ago, they might have a real business hitting lower-end markets. But the Chinese beat them to the punch. They will now dominate the volume markets. Tesla's sales are now heavily dependent on import controls to keep out competitors from China. The bang for the buck of a Chinese EV at this point is so far beyond Tesla that they can't even see them.

If Tesla really wanted the car market, they could have come up with a lower end brand and focused on low cost engineering. But it was around this time that Elon decided that the only thing he cared about was attention and low cost engineering is not attention grabbing, generally. It is a slow, labor-intensive slog.

So now we have a company who makes expensive toys and more expensive toys but selling itself on how everybody on earth will need their very expensive toys that intentionally alienates a big chunk of their customers. It has a big component of its value that is the world's largest meme stock.