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Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by ajross on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:03PM (#26918605)
> 1) are a company I want to support

Really? I mean... as opposed to which automaker?

Paraphrasing Matthew Yglesias[1]: Elon Musk is a raging narcissist asshole. But he built a three-quarter-trillion dollar company that makes electric cars and solar panels. That's... objectively pretty good for all of us, right?

[1] I think. Actually I can't completely remember where I read this but it definitely sounds like him.

Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by eropple on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:37PM (#26919515)
Maybe I was unclear. It's not (just) that Elon Musk is a dirtbag who sics his literally millions of stans on random people, though that's part of it; I don't think the way that he, personally, identifies and treats people is a reasonable way for a person with any measure of power to act.

It's also that I don't want to support an automaker that makes cars as poorly as Tesla does. Even to this day Tesla rolls cars out to customers with stuff as simple as body panels totally hosed. And Tesla then gives buyers the run-around when they seek redress. That's when they aren't double-charging folks and making getting that redressed entirely too difficult, too.

I didn't say they shouldn't exist. I said that I don't want to give them money. Tesla's shitty at making cars and shitty at customer service and I don't have a reason to buy from them either from the perspective of a purchaser or as somebody who tries to be at least reasonably ethical with the allocation of my money. As mentioned, my next car will likely be a Kona EV, where the body panels don't fall off and I have some trust in the warranty to actually be honored if I need something done.

Re:Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4 by bpodgursky on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:11PM (#26918690)
He did. Something like "bad tweeter, but good for the world".