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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by somethoughts on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:13PM (#33959595)
My cynical, tongue and cheek "Elon is playing 4D chess while us mere mortals can only watch in amazement" is that the current persona is a ploy to break the Tesla brand from the confines of the Silicon Valley/California customer base as that market is close to fully saturated.

The move to Texas and the embrace of antics that play well with conservative social media is an attempt at getting free marketing to a new segment of buyers.

It is beneficial to Tesla if it wants to expand into the middle American auto market - which is probably bigger in size - where buyers are probably skeptical of adopting EVs and would otherwise be hesitant to trade in their gas powered F150/Hemi for an EV Cybertruck.

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by LarryMullins on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:25PM (#33959758)
If this were really his ploy, I think he'd get more mileage out of less contentious stunts, like making an electric monster car and using it to drive over ICE cars at county fairs, ...or something like that. The political tweeting seems like a bad idea as a sales stunt, so I suspect he's mostly genuine with the political stuff.
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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by coolbreezetft22 on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:18PM (#33959665)
I've thought about this too, but it's one thing to go on twitter and post some memes for free (or 8$/month lol) and another to shell out $50k for a car just to own the libs.
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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by hedora on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:34PM (#33959875)
Hemi driver here. We're planning to trade it in for an electric F-150.

I get the appeal of the Cybertruck and Rivian, but they're completely impractical for use as pickup trucks. I hope they find their niches and everything, but there's no way they'd replace a conventional full sized pickup that was actually being used for truck stuff.

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Re:Half-Price Tesla Stock Is Still No Bargain by cogman10 on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:16PM (#33959626)
I've sort of wondered if this was his ploy. If this is truly what he's trying to do, then he runs the risk of losing his lefty sales. Perhaps he's banking on being the best EV on the market?
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