Tesla Inc. is no longer selling the majority of new electric cars registered in California, the state that accounts for almost a third of all
  • Mike@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    They just weren’t paying attention then because Musk has always been exactly that.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 hours ago

      Do you look up every owner of the manufacturer of everything you buy? I agree he has been this way for a while. But people buy cars for transportation. Not for their owners.

      • Mike@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 minutes ago

        Like the other guy said, Elon Musk is public about his shittiness. In the beginning didn’t even care about him, and yet I couldn’t escape him because he was constantly on the news.

      • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        True, but most CEOs are unknown to consumers, only to employees and share-holders. Usually there is a “culture” of a company that is a blend of PR, advertising, marketing, etc. Here Musk became associated with the brand though. Tesla existed before Musk and worked well… but was nowhere near a popular. I hate Musk yet I feel it’s fair (and please if you have data showing I’m wrong, do share, I’d love to remove any wrongful attributed credit from him) to say he made Tesla enormously more popular than before he invested in it. So… you are right in most cases people buy cars, and other products, without knowing about the CEO but that specifically does not apply to Tesla where the hype precisely came from a self branded as IronMan.