@josh0 I’ve been pondering your post for ~10 days now, unsure if I should reply.

FWIW, I’m a Jew who could never own a VW, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, or Porsche, because of their involvement in the Holocaust.

And I’ve just reached the same point with Tesla.

This is after owning 5 Teslas, and being a huge fan of the company since 2013. I own 2 Teslas right now and I’m selling both of them, even though I think the Model 3 is the best all-around vehicle for me currently on the US market.

At this point I personally cannot stomach being associated with Musk. He’s either a Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer/supporter, or such a troll that he likes making people think that is he such. Regardless of what’s in his heart (if anything) he has associated himself with white supremacy and antisemitism and I need to dissasociate myself from him.

So this is very personal for me and it’s as much about how can I live with myself on a daily basis as it is about impacting Musk himself.

@avi I don’t disagree with your position at all, nor would I discourage anyone from selling their Tesla. If I owned one, I would definitely be disposing of it. My issue is with the way people seem to be framing it as a way to hurt Musk/Tesla. It simply isn’t that. Selling your Tesla only means that someone else will be driving it.

At best, if you sell it to a dealership, they’ll then flip it to a wholesaler, and it might just sit on a lot unsold somewhere, but especially as car prices are almost certainly about to spike, used cars are going to move quickly.

@avi this is true. Depressing the price of used Teslas would be good, but if/when those tariffs actually materialize, the prices of all used cars is going to skyrocket like it did from the supply chain issues during Covid. It would not surprise me in the slightest if Musk is actually specifically planning for this; he’s in a fantastic position to manipulate the market for his own benefit.

I’ve noticed a number of people talking about donating their Teslas, and—where financially feasible—this actually seems like a great option. Especially if they’re donated to charities that will then use them, ideally with prominent branding for their causes.

I’m picturing a fleet of pink Teslas with the T logo replaced with an IUD that serve as free shuttles to/from Planned Parenthood locations. Obviously, this would actually be a very bad idea that will never happen, but it makes me smile. And actually bog-standard Teslas used for the purpose might actually work really well as camouflage.

@josh0 OMG I love that image

@avi it’s just so perfect! 😆