And it's still the best selling pickup truck... People who buy pickup EV don't give a fuck about it being a poor truck. Truly wild times, I thought Ford would demolish them but they are so far behind its laughable.
Eh, it's the sword rattling. Common tactic to make himself look strong and to be feared. He could still be spineless or once not under watchful eye of Putin, a drastically different person.
Putin isn't known for keeping people around if they're a threat to him.
Cause? What cause? They finally found their version of Trans people to target.
Let's be completely honest here. We know right hates LGBT because they can't be openly racist anymore. People NEED to hate and fight something. They'll use anyone and anything as the target to lash out.
Now we have people target Tesla because Musk is unreachable... Really? That's the avenue you want down? World's easiest target and you pick one thing he's associated that's good and will effect normal people? Cool. Checks out. You can't put face on starlink, spacex or twitter anymore apparently.
It's stupid and while so far removed from anti LGBT the other groups were targeting, this isn't a race to the bottom.
Once it blows over they'll recover. There's too many examples of other industries doing exactly that... Hell, even Activision Blizzard, famous for Bill Cosby suite, breast milk thiefs, CEO threatening to have his secretary assassinated, sucking up to China etc etc.
People swore off to never touch them again, but they're one cinematic away from being back in the game.
With cars, not everyone can afford new one, so your sample size is much much smaller, easy to "boycott" something you weren't going to buy.
We're under no illusion, people online just want to be part of a movement. But statistically, 80% of people were never going to get one to begin with. And I'm being generous with their marketshare.
Explain to me like I'm 5... Can we not just stop butchering chickens for few days and get them to lay eggs to "catch" up? Or are those chickens too far removed from normal chickens that they no longer lay eggs?
Where are you that cars are affordable to a point where this is an usual thing?