Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

  • jocanib@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    many years now

    This appears to be an escalating fraud, affecting newer models more than old. So I’d guess that’s ^^ the answer.

    It’s not just a Reuters investigation, they’ve been fined by a few jurisdictions and they absolutely do have the ability to pay lawyers to defend those charges if they’re false.

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      1 year ago

      According to the article they had to derate their ranges by 3-5% of so. Cory is talking about the range being less than half of the estimated one. I think we would’ve seen thousands of stranded Teslas around here if that were really the case. So I remain doubtful.