Electrek - consistent stream of negative articles.

I read literally every their articles a few years ago until things look out of control. At very beginning looks like this guy got a lot of referal credits from Tesla and he might get a Roadster for free? (I'm not so sure about that) But you know Roadster is still not a thing right now so he kept compalining about this. Then he tried fsd and claimed Tesla almost killed him before fsd 12 so he kept claiming fsd is a really bad thing and Elon always delays his promise bla bla bla. Then he wrote an article that he sold all his tesla shares for like $200 before the stock shoot up and you know a lot of Tesla fans start mocking him. And apprantly he is a Democratic so after Elon and Maga he became a completely Tesla hater, like some other influencers.

> I also noticed Electrek has REMOVED positive Tesla articles. - https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1chb8b7/whats_up_with_elektrek_deleting_pro_tesla_comments/ How convenient that the OP of that thread never actually posted any examples of the comments they posted. In general - is it possible that you see a stream of negative articles about Tesla, because *there's a lot of negative stories coming from Tesla or surrounding Tesla* and Electrek is just reporting on them?

Electrek has made it very clear for years they are biased against Tesla.

Fred?

Yeah, Fred got but hurt years ago and has had it out against Tesla. A bit strange but it is what it is

This site is complete shit. Fred is a baby and has had a vendetta against Tesla for a few years now. Their clicks have also been trending down and that has just let to more Tesla hit pieces.

Fred, is that you?

They have definitely been very biased against Tesla for a while now. I have no idea why. But I don’t bother to read their articles anymore since I think they are tainted.

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Don’t worry. These overly political outlets will put themselves out of business, by attempting to shift the market. Over time, the invisible hand always wins.

OK band though.

You're saying a media organization is biased because the owner *doesn't* own stock in Tesla?

Ironically it used to be on the other side. Anytime I actually click an electrek article I always make sure to stop reading at «Electrek’s Take». Fred’s opinions where shit when he was pro Tesla, and they’re shit now.

Yes, they aren't alone in FUD slinging against Tesla and EVs in general for awhile. Just don't ever mention, interact or click on links to their site.

Writing negatively about Tesla could simply be the truth. Writing positively could simply be self-interest. Have you ever thought about it?

Yea he was pissed they dropped the price of the performance Model 3 by $5k right after getting one and wrote a series of articles about how he got ripped off and Tesla should compensate people like him.  Eventually Tesla caved and gave people $5k back if they surrendered free supercharging.

We have to be honest very few whether pro or anti are objective. I see all these YouTube folks who are so pro and can’t be objective and the some other online media are so anti they can’t see the positives. People just have a hard time being objective

It is true. it is non stop tesla negativity. coming from a place that's supposed to love electric vehicles...

Democrats are sore losers LOL

These things aren't mutually exclusive. You can love tesla and have beef with electric vehicles overall. You can also loathe tesla, and love electric vehicles.

Not *because*, but in addition to.

No OP is alleging bias because they are allegedly selectively removing only pro-tesla comments.

I have thought about and concluded that is not the reason.

Why wait?

Fred Lambert has a hate boner for Elon for the last 10 years. He himself is quite the dunce.

I was never offered 5k or anything to give up free Supercharging. That never made any sense to me then nor now. Six years later, still loving it!

>I can’t wait to get rid of mine. Don't let your dreams be dreams. Carvana.com

These are the same people who attack Troy Teslike on a daily basis because he accurately reports Tesla’s declining delivery numbers lol Seriously. Go read some of the comments under his posts on twitter and you’ll see.

Maybe 😏

Yeah, no idea... What could it be?

Yeah… the other brands are all neutral. But tesla is super opinionated with ultra negative bias. I stopped opening their articles because of that. I liked their reporting but the constant bias is unreadable. So im boycotting electrek until they fire fred! (Using their own arguments lol)

Too negative now...deleted their bookmark from my daily reads. If enough people do this, the traffic will decline.

Cults are wild.

does it really matter? it's always been a blog and not a serious news source. they are using Wordpress lol

Two reasons I can think of for Electrek's Tesla-bashing: i) It's easy (and getting easier by the day, it seems), and requires little skill and/or talent; it's always easier to tear things down ii) There's a built-in audience; even before Musk became the lightning rod he is now, there have been Tesla-haters. Now the Tesla-hating has gotten out of hand in large part because from the public's perspective, Tesla IS Musk.

You should try reading some of this guys articles lmao, it’s hilarious how hating Tesla is not even his hobby, it’s this Fred guy’s full time job

I think the owners criticism is constructive.

No it was Elon who was butthurt

Fred used to be supportive of Elon and Tesla. Elon used to promote electrek articles and valued Fred's opinion. When performance model 3 price dropped by $5k (which happens quite frequently in businesses and tesla at that time figuring out demand vs price and was in difficult time ), Fred wrote negative article and pissed off for losing $5k. Elon even caved in for this and gave some concessions or so. (don't remember details correctly). Elon replied to one of Fred's tweet in little harsh(expressing some anger ). and Fred mocked Elon in response to that. That is when it started going downhill. Fred took it personal and started writing articles in neutral/critical manner ( from all positve articles ). This phase of Electrek/Fred articles were atleast okay to read. Lately, it is complete hate and negative spin. Fred is also stubborn, headstrong.

pure speculation - but he could be getting paid by shortsellers or other car companies directly competing against Tesla. otoh he does indirectly get paid to do that regardless because writing negative articles tends to generate more clicks than positive ones and that drives traffic to his site which pays his bills... so... one way or another it's probably about money

How?

That's not why Troy gets criticized. It's because there are flaws in his methodology that all but ensure he's rarely the most accurate, he covers up on his misses, and he blocks anyone who points them out.

Oh not that, lol. I remember!

And it’s not a new thing either, I remember people bashing him for it back during the COVID days. I stopped using Electrek(and most media outlets tbh) after I realized how biased they were.

I looked at the NY Times archives from the 1940's. Turns out they only had negative articles about Hitler. What happened to journalistic ethics?

FutureAZA, I blocked you on Twitter because you said your estimates were more accurate but wouldn’t provide your historical error rate when I asked. Then, you told your followers you had already shared it with me—which wasn’t true—and still declined to show the data. For transparency, [here is my error rate](https://i.imgur.com/p0CbZbS.png) for Tesla deliveries over the past 12 quarters. My average error is 2.6% per quarter. Where’s your data? Are you planning to keep avoiding the question and selectively highlight only the quarters where your estimates looked good? Or will you continue debating about whether you’ve shown it instead of simply providing the numbers for the last 12 quarters like I did, or last 10 or last 8. Troy Teslike

Damn, that's pretty good. I'm giving you a follow now! How are we looking for this quarter, Model Y retooling the hold up, or are as boned as the media is saying?

I don't want to go into too much detail, but based on the latest DMV Vehicle Identification Numbers, Tesla's delivery situation this quarter is somewhere between very bad and terrible. By the way, I always tweet my final estimate for quarterly deliveries on the last day of the quarter because I want to be transparent about my error rate. So, check out my post on March 31st, two days before Tesla releases the actual numbers on April 2nd. Here are links to [my Twitter](https://x.com/TroyTeslike) and [Blue Sky](https://bsky.app/profile/troyteslike.bsky.social) profiles.

ouch, I would be pretty pissed If I divested immediately before the stock price went to the sky

No but because they sold just before those stocks would have made millions. Thats enough to make anyone bitter

It’s more obvious now. OP doesn’t need to backup obvious. I think they already were against Tesla for some time. But now they are further jumping on the band wagon of Tesla hate.

I mostly see the through my facebook feed. I think I subscribed before they jumped the shark. Now this is exactly the impression, negative article after each other, usually with little relation to factuality. Guess I should finally just press the unsub

Fred didn't get his promised Roadsters and have been on a crusade against Tesla since. In a way I can understand him, but it makes his articles worthless.

At any respectable journalism job, you aren't allowed to have any financial interest in the companies you report on. No stocks, no shorts.

I found the Electrek site a few years ago when I was looking for electric motorcycles, I quickly realized that they are staffed by people that aren't really qualified to be talking about cars or motorcycles. They always peddle these shady Chinese mopeds as street capable motorcycles and I completely ignore their "news" on vehicles as the information they provide is just straight from press releases.

Have been an Electrek reader since ~2018. They were huge fans til Elon went mask off, hood on.

Musk is the instigating storm, not the lightning rod

WRONG. We are on the same team!!! I own a Model S. My 3rd Tesla btw. And I love it. Take my inquiry at face value... Really just wanted to know what is up with that very visible blog that keeps popping up on google news and other feeds.

Fred Lambert is the human boner who doesn't let people respond to him on X. He is rapidly making Electrek turn into a joke.

😳 [https://imgur.com/a/TxweSFK](https://imgur.com/a/TxweSFK) source:[https://x.com/FredericLambert/status/1907497252509110555](https://x.com/FredericLambert/status/1907497252509110555)

It’s not that hard to objectively write negatively about Tesla, but this site manages to let its bias shine through with every article.

I've noticed that for a few years over there. In the past someone mentioned it was because they didnt get their free roadsters they were promised by Tesla. Who knows.

Hi Bryan, pretty cool seeing you joining in. Could you or one of the guys make a sticky post here as soon as Robotaxi deployment day in June is scheduled and what Austin events? Tesla IR does not tell us shit as you know. We often to have rely on word of mouth to learn anything.

I just hope we get enough advance notice. Sometimes it's only a week or two. I'll already be on a road trip to the Midwest in June for the Muskegon Summer Meetup, so I hope the dates don't conflict. Last year we had the shareholder meeting a few days before, which was in an entirely different month than it had been in the past.

It's pretty easy to see the huge bias in the articles now

Fred is the biggest crybaby on the internet. He’s consistently tried and failed to slander Elon. It’s a liberal site disguised as a impartial publication