Nearly one-third of Tesla owners in the Netherlands are considering selling their vehicles due to controversies surrounding Elon Musk, according to a new survey by EenVandaag. The study, which included over 26,000 panel members, fou

Summary

A survey in the Netherlands revealed that 31% of Tesla owners are considering selling their cars due to Elon Musk’s controversial actions, including his involvement in politics and handling of misinformation on X (formerly Twitter).

About 40% feel embarrassed to own a Tesla, though 51% say Musk’s behavior doesn’t affect their view of the car.

Musk’s leadership of X has also driven users away, with 46% leaving or considering leaving the platform.

Parallel criticism of Mark Zuckerberg for removing fact-checking has fueled similar debates over tech leadership and misinformation.

  • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Doesn’t Capitalism dictate that with this much resentment for Tesla another product to compete with it should appear if not many products to compete with it?

    Where are they? Where they capitalism? Do your ducking job capitalism! Or duck right the hell out of there

    • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      3/10 “considering” is not a lot of resentment. Is it more or less than similar figures for other manufacturers?

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      Can’t compete, the other massive EV makers are Chinese and the gubment banned them cause free market or some shit Idk.

      • vga@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        China is subsidizing their export EVs quite heavily. From a free market perspective, it’s quite ok that China pays a part of the car price for us, but from a local jobs perspective there’s a potential problem there.