Charlotte drops Tesla from approved EV vendor list over concerns of “instability”

From the article: The Charlotte City Council has voted to remove Tesla from its list of approved electric vehicle (EV) vendors. The decision came following a 6-3 vote during a council meeting on Monday, marking a significant shift in the North Carolina city’s procurement strategy that appears to be based purely on political bias. While Tesla was removed, the Council approved the purchase of 45 new electric vehicles to replace aging units in the city’s fleet, but those will come from other automakers. The decision to remove Tesla from the list of approved vendors was made thanks to the work of Council member LaWana Slack-Mayfield, who first raised concerns during a meeting earlier this month, citing what she described as “instability” at Tesla. Mayfield pushed for the city to stop purchasing vehicles from the automaker, which currently supplies just 15 of Charlotte’s 178 electric fleet vehicles. “It has been proven on multiple occasions that the instability exists, and I think we can make better choices of tax dollars and identify companies that align with our city’s goals and expectations of truly being a welcoming city. When we are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and putting our employees out in these vehicles using tax dollars, we should also think about the values of the companies we invest in,” Mayfield said. (via WSOC-TV)

Fuck yah Charlotte! I went to college in Charlotte. But yah that’s great reasoning. No government (nobody really) can buy Tesla without supporting the extreme right.

Good. I’d like to see other public bodies step away from funding someone hell bent on undermining our system of government & democracy itself.

Hope they get some polestars

Not buying Teslas, still buying electric vehicles. Pretty much ideal outcome

I don't think it's political. Why buy a car from an unstable company? That has a lot of risks already.

I think every governmental organization should do this… Why would they buy those cars? They are way too many better options out there

Hey u/chrisdh79 share this on the main sub.

There's much better EVs out there that aren't led by the human stain that effectively committed a coup against our country.

There’s a reason Hertz dumped its Teslas. They make poor fleet vehicles. Cost of ownership should be an advantage in a fleet vehicle, not a disadvantage.

They never belonged on the list in the first place

Why instability? It's not like Elon will order every Tesla transporting his enemies to crash into a wall... oh oh.

I’d be surprised to find out that Tesla’s are cheaper to operate than other EVs. Maybe the only reason to buy them now is that they are getting so cheap on the secondary market that they could be used and discarded for less than maintaining other EVs.

I think at one point the model Y was the most efficient EV… But I don’t think that’s the case anymore… I’m just a MPGE basis

It can be both. You don't want it for political reasons so you find something else to argue for your position without making it look political. ut with Tesla they honestly don't have to look far to find non political reasons to exclude them

Very true.

When they started listing the things the city looks for I went "fuck telsas the worst at all of this"

"Cheap on the secondary market" is another way of saying "new car depreciates more severely than budgeted". It's another reason not to buy that car.