Given Elon Musk’s political views and public stances, I’m curious how you’re thinking about your Tesla ownership. I understand that a car is a major financial asset—it’s not an easy thing to just sell or trade based on political or personal values.
That said, do you have any plans to keep your Tesla, sell it, trade it in, or maybe just ride it out and choose something else next time?
No judgment—genuinely interested in how people are thinking about this.
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Given Elon Musk’s political views and public stances, I’m curious how you’re thinking about your Tesla ownership. I understand that a car is a major financial asset—it’s not an easy thing to just sell or trade based on political or personal values.
That said, do you have any plans to keep your Tesla, sell it, trade it in, or maybe just ride it out and choose something else next time?
No judgment—genuinely interested in how people are thinking about this.
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I know I’ll get voted down for this… but it’s the art from the artist situation.
Tesla hires a lot of Californian’s that are committed to climate change. The cars are technical marvels and it’s fun to drive them. The same goes for the panels and the powerwalls. They are incredible innovations.
It seems insane to me to read a lot of the posts about trading a Tesla for a Kia. The people who make Teslas in Fremont, Buffalo, Austin, and Reno are Americans. KIA’s are made in South Korea which also has oligarch problems.
Elon sucks mostly because he took the money and now he’s trying to block the competition from participating. Biden snubbed him, he has a transgender child and he’s a glorious man child. But don’t hurt the people that make the cars because their boss is an asshole.
The people burning Teslas are doing Elon Musk a favor and ensuring he’ll recoup every single loss he was going to make on unsold Teslas. If they had a milligram of restraint the cars would’ve flopped harder than Snow White and melted away to scrap yards in a few years. Now they’re martyrs with insurance checks.
No one is going to buy new Teslas for a minute, Elon Musks team will have time to actually make a reliable car, and they’re gonna be right back to business as usual with more brand recognition than ever before. Not to mention luxurious fire suppression systems on their fleet of automatic taxis. Even when he loses he wins. It’s like pottery in motion.
How would an after market sale of a automobile impact Elon Musk?
Maybe if a person decided to park it in the garage and never drive it again; taking it off the street could make the car look less popular (ie others not seeing so many).
Better yet Tesla owners banding together to destroy “their” Tesla in a very public way as a form of protest. A smash fest, bring down your Tesla and have it stripped and distorted.
I own a Model 3, I have had it for two years, it meets all my requirements for a daily driver, I like the tech, I like free fuel (charged mostly off of solar), it’s fun to drive, and practical.
I also own three other vehicles, a Land Rover, a BMW, and a Citroen. If you asked me to name the CEOs of either of these three manufacturers, I would have to Google it, as for their political leaning and behavior, I would have no idea, it’s never been something I have considered.
Yes its unfortunate that Elon is in the public Eye making an absolute knob of himself, however luckily I live in Australia, and we dont give a shit about him.
I don’t tie my car ownership to the CEO of a company. I enjoy the car and plan to keep it for the long term. Would look at buying another when I look for my next purchase as well.
> how you’re thinking about your Tesla ownership
Not great.
> ride it out and choose something else next time
That one. If I hit it big I’m buying a Lucid but until then my Model 3 is a 2019 with low-ish mileage that’s had no real issues so far. I can’t justify replacing it.
There is a cohort of Tesla owners who are actually costing Tesla/Elon money, and that’s folks with Model S or X paid off years ago but still getting free supercharging. Those folks should definitely keep their cars.
Teslas are great cars. Unfortunately bought the cybertruck. Other than a panel falling off it’s an amazing vehicle. But I get flipped off constantly. Just going to wait for Elon to leave or just shut up.
Not quite your target audience, but there was a time (a couple years ago now I guess) when I’d all but decided that my next car was going to be a Tesla. I’d even started looking and planning, and was only waiting to run my current car into the ground to make the switch. Now that’s totally and completely off the table permanently.
What does getting rid of it accomplish? You already bought it
We still have ours and we had decided against buying another well before Elon came out fully as a lunatic.
We just can’t afford to trade it in now and get another car loan with all the economic uncertainty caused by the fascists.
Cars okay. Never been fully happy with it. Feels cheap and the computer is noticably old.
It’s like driving a PC you had to force to upgrade when it’s below the minimum system requirements.
We still have ours and we had decided against buying another well before Elon came out fully as a lunatic.
We just can’t afford to trade it in now and get another car loan with all the economic uncertainty caused by the fascists.
Cars okay. Never been fully happy with it. Feels cheap and the computer is noticably old.
It’s like driving a PC you had to force to upgrade when it’s below the minimum system requirements.
If you bought the car the transaction that helped musk is largely done. Sure, I guess a bad used market could hurt Tesla currently, but no where near as much as it would to the owner.
I work with two liberals guys who bought Model S’s in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Both absolutely loved the car, one was all in on the Tesla brand.
They both initially decided to ride it out and hope either Elon came to his senses or buy another car the next time. After the Nazi salute, one decided to sell, and the other got a “I bought this before Elon went crazy” sticker.
I will say, the one who did sell had a really hard time finding a car he liked better. It ended up being between the Lucid and the Taycan, he bought the Lucid because it was cheaper. He says it’s 90% as good as the Model S, but he still misses it.
I want to sell it, but costs of everything are outrageous, and it’s paid off. And my job is forcing me back into office 5 days a week soon so having nearly free “fuel” helps. So I guess I just deal with it for another year or two.
Don’t forget that protesters going after Teslas likely have had either themselves or family members severely harmed by musk and DOGE. You cant put the well being of Tesla employees over millions of Americans who are being harmed by musk
Why do you think it’s difficult to sell a used Tesla?
>I’m curious how you’re thinking about your Tesla ownership.
I’m European, so the answer is quite simple and clear. Owning a Tesla will get you comments. I’m also Dutch, so those comments will be direct and likely offend the other person.
We traded ours in for a VolksWagen EV. Because fuck Musk.