....I am most wary of any brand that has slick marketing but don't bother investing enough in customer service and quality control.
....Cybertruck received slick marketing, promoted by Kim Kardashian (paid of course), and came with promotional videos of how bullets could not penetrate the vehicle and the vehicle enduring rough terrain, but now it is falling apart and sales suspended. Who needs a vehicle aimed at retail market that is sold like an army like vehicle ( unless it is suggesting that USA could become a place like the scene from Escape from New York (Kurt Russell) ) when it could not even hold its panels together, lol.
....Tesla deliveries will get worse in the months ahead. The decline in sales is not just due to global Elon protests and domestic threats on Tesla drivers but everything around Tesla is imploding fast - insider directors and management selling Tesla stocks in significant quantities including Elon's own brother, Tesla used car price is crashing, analysts who own Tesla stock demanding Elon returning to his CEO seat or vacate, technology gap between Tesla and BYD has widened on battery recharging, and a global tariff hit is just weeks ahead. Tesla's Troubles — Is it Musk or is it More?
Tesla tumbled 15% on March 10, its biggest single day drop in more than five years. Elliott Wave International's March Global Market Perspective provides this insight:
The world's richest man, Elon Musk, is also more vulnerable than most people realize. In March 2023, when a poll by Heatmap News, a website that focuses on climate news, showed that prospective electric-vehicle buyers were less likely to buy a Tesla due to Musk's behavior, the Global Market Perspective argued that his persona is so "attached to a bull market that even small shifts in social mood can damage his public cachet irreparably." Tesla's stock price has made no net progress since January 2021 and is down 42% from its all-time high in December 2024. In January, Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority reported that just 1,300 new Teslas were registered, the lowest monthly total since July 2021. Across Europe's three largest electric vehicle markets -- Germany, France and Britain -- yearly sales were off 59%, 63% and 12%, respectively. Meanwhile, the average price of a used Tesla recently fell below $32,000, down from nearly $68,000 in 2022:
Tesla's stock price is now less than half its peak only three months ago. Think there may be trouble brewing elsewhere too?
