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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

28: Tesla

India's alarm over Chinese spying rocks the surveillance industry In 2021, Modi's then-junior IT minister told parliament that 1 million cameras in government institutions were from Chinese companies and there were vulnerabilities with video data transferred to servers abroad.

I swapped my Tesla for a BYD after getting frustrated with Elon Musk. It was the right decision, but there are some things I miss. Gielen sold her Tesla in part because of Elon Musk's political interventions. .......... She said the BYD was well-built but lacked some of Tesla's technological features. ......... I bought a Tesla Model 3 three years ago. It was my first electric car, and I'd wanted a Tesla for years. ......... I have to say, I loved that car. It was such a big step up from the normal combustion engines and had so many cool features. I still miss it sometimes. .......... Elon Musk joining the Trump administration was the final straw. I love cars, but if owning one gets overruled by the constant noise about the CEO and people asking whether it bothers me, then the fun goes out of it. .............. I sold my Model 3 for 150,000 Danish Krone, or about $22,000, in April, having paid 350,000 Krone for it in 2022, and I bought a BYD Sealion 7 Excellence the same month. ........... The build quality is on a level with a Mercedes, and the car feels really premium. ......... The best thing about the car is how solid it is. I always tell people the Tesla felt like a toy car compared to this one, because it was always rattling. ......... Sometimes, when it was freezing, you couldn't close the door because it wouldn't catch, and when you drove the Tesla around in the rain, sometimes you would hear sloshing sounds like water was dripping in the car. So the build quality is completely different. ........... The Tesla auto-locks and unlocks when you just have your phone in your bag or on you. ............ When you charged your car, the Tesla automatically opened its charger port flap and closed it again. ......... My kids also really loved the Tesla's "Santa Mode," and the Tesla app has a lot more features than the BYD one. ............ The feature I'm really going to miss is that Tesla automatically defrosted the windows via the app. ......... You could overlook some of the things that were wrong with the Tesla because it was so easy to use, it was almost like an iPhone.

Man claims losing $70K in business over Cybertruck

Used Tesla prices depreciated more than any other automaker in 2024 An analysis of CarGurus data shows that Tesla’s best-selling models lost about a quarter of their value in 2024. .......... The average price of a Model Y for sale on the platform dropped by 25.5% between January of 2024 and January 2025, and the price of the Model 3 dropped by 25%. In that same time frame, the average price of a Nissan Maxima only dropped by 5.2% and a Ford Mustang by 5%. .........

the company's hype-driven stock price

......... For example, the company's still speculative self-driving technology is only available in Model 3s released after 2017 and post-2019 Model Ys, one of a slew of changes that aligns the carmaker's products more closely with the depreciation timeline of typical consumer technology products than autos. .........
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