Posted on 03/16/2025 9:47:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After climbing into a Tesla Model S last week, President Trump pledged to buy one. The next day, the Fox News host Sean Hannity said he had bought a Model S Plaid to support the embattled company, saying a Tesla “has more American parts in it than any other car made in our country.”
In a backlash to the backlash against the tactics of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, prominent conservatives are rallying to the side of the electric car company led by Mr. Musk. They are hoping to swing enough like-minded consumers to offset a boycott of the electric automaker by liberals and Democrats or anyone offended by Mr. Musk’s actions. But how effective can such a rescue mission be? Analysts say it can help but only to an extent.
So many Democratic buyers appear to be fleeing Tesla that even Mr. Trump’s best sales pitch is unlikely to woo enough new customers to fill the vacuum, auto experts said. Analysts at JPMorgan predict Tesla will deliver its fewest cars in the first quarter than it had in three years.
Mr. Edwards has been surveying car buyers for decades. Since 2016, the surveys have found that electric-car owners were up to four times as likely to identify as Democrats or liberals as to identify as Republican or conservative. Among Tesla owners, the spread was consistently two to one.
The gap narrowed sharply through 2024. This year, as sales have fallen, slightly more Tesla buyers identify as Republicans than Democrats, at 30 percent versus 29 percent.
Tesla remains America’s best-selling electric vehicle brand by far with about 44 percent of the market, despite a 5.6 percent drop in U.S. sales, to about 634,000 cars in 2024, according to Kelley Blue Book.
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They were running out of Starbuck moms before he partnered with Trump.
Elon’s worry meter is at 0%.
If the Texas reddit is any indication of the way things are going to go for Tesla, it is time to short the stock.
One thing is certain, it is going to be a long hot summer.
“… slightly more Tesla buyers identify as Republicans than Democrats, at 30 percent versus 29 percent.…”
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Many more DemocRATS than Republicans are among the parasites being removed from their sinecures sucking money from hard working American taxpayers. So the soon to be unemployed ‘Rats will have less money to spend. That’s not a bad thing. Who knows, the former parasites may even find actual productive work where they create wealth instead of merely consuming wealth produced by others.
Astroturfing Antifa
Astroturfing Antifa … just like the ‘spontaneous’ rabbles at Republican Town Hall meetings. Typical DS/Dem Mockingbird Media.
Tesla and EVs were encountering headwinds before Musk ceased to be a left-wing darling.
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/new-york-city-orders-hundreds-of-tesla-model-3s-for-municipal-fleet/
He bought this out of his own pocket and said it was for employees to use.
What’s more bizarre: the left’s refutation of EVs or the right’s embrace of them?
Good question.
“What’s more bizarre: the left’s refutation of EVs or the right’s embrace of them?”
That’s a good question. I was in the market for a new car a few months ago, and I didn’t seriously consider an EV. Nothing to do with liking or disliking Musk, but rather a matter of recognizing that an EV isn’t a good choice for someone like me who regularly does long road trips. Look, in a regular internal-combustion vehicle, I can drive like 900 miles with one 5-minute fuel and bathroom break. With the most extented range, fast-charging EV, you’d be talking about 3 or 4 breaks with charge times adding up to at least a couple hours. I can’t live like that. Nothing to do with politics.
For me it’s about 8K miles, but that gets into having home solar, how much it cost to upgrade the solar when we bought the EV to do most of our changing with homemade power, and the benefit of usually being home during the day when we charge it (when the sun is still shining, et.).
Our gas pickup can be used for long trips that don’t have good fast charging options. We usually take the EV on trips, but I researched before getting the EV and realized that most of the trips we take have fast chargers. My wife wants to stop every 200 miles anyway and spend 10 minutes using the restroom and walking around to stretch her legs. And we don’t take trips up north during the winter. So the newer, more comfortable of our two cars being the EV is what we use for most trips. But we don’t go 900 miles between pit stops. lol
prominent conservatives are rallying to the side of the electric car company led by Mr. Musk
Gee, I dunno...maybe if they had a ICE option...
“offsetting a boycott” - I doubt it is their “boycott” as much as it is people not wanting to be harassed by a crowd of nutcases at Tesla dealerships and service centers, and seeing terrorists attacking dealerships and the car owners. They need to be identified and have civil lawsuits filed against them for damages.
I respectfully disagree. Lots of Tesla owners now hate their car because of Musk. That's of course, the ones who bought an EV, especially a Tesla, back when it was a virtue signaling thing to do. Which are most Tesla owners.
I know this because of people I meet at fast chargers for the 10-15 minutes I'm charging on a trip. They tell me that they wish they had an EV like mine (Hyundai) because of how much they now hate Musk. When I ask people questions like how many miles/kWh they get with their EV, how much that changes up north during the winter, how much they pay per kWh on their home power bill, or how many miles they have to drive per year for the gas and oil change savings to be worth the cost, virtually none of them have any answers for those practical questions about owning an EV. The few who did have answers weren't Tesla owners. LOL
I didn’t buy the car, I brought the stock last week, going to make allot!
How much of your time is used measuring, calculating and analyzing the data for all this?
And once per month it's part of the 4 to 5 hours per month I spend on my budget, finances, investments. When I get a power bill, download the telemetry from my inverters into a SQL DB, record my EV odometer in a spreadsheet (to calculate the miles driven that month, compared with that month's gas prices), run a few SQL queries I made years ago -- that part is about 30 minutes per month. That data stuff is easy to me because that's what I've done for a career (back-end data programmer, with some data reporting, not exactly data analyst or statistician, but not exactly too far from it). Making sure our energy expenses are mostly taken care of per month is part of making sure our overall expenses are managed within our incomes as we might be fully retired soon.
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