Elon’s Divisive Opinions Are Destroying Tesla’s Brand

Looks like he is about to dig into some fava beans and a nice chianti (on Mars).

"Divisive opinions" = far right extemism, bigotry and relentless white supremacy.

I also think making a shitty product is destroying it as well

r/noshitsherlock

Poisoning? He poisoned it over a year ago.Poisoning? He poisoned it over a year ago. Just more evidence of what a "genius" he is. His ramblings and antics have done nothing but alienate the demographic that were buying his products.

I'm pretty sure pedophilia and racism extend well beyond what we normally think of as "divisive opinions".

I predicted long ago that when the legacy auto makers got into EVs, Tesla's market share would shrivel up and die because they know how to make a car.

Sieg Heil. Nothing more to discuss after that!

"Are" implies it didnt already happen

Elon has gone so far off the deep end that there's no coming back. You know he knows it too. He's trying to come back. He went quiet for a couple of months, hoping that would help (it didn't). Now he's saying he believes in God. He's trying different things to see if he can get the public to like him again. It's over though. Especially after the Epstein shit. Anything this guy touches (unless funded by the government) will fail. Consumers aren't going to buy shit from a potential pedophile.

I've been watching a lot of Law and Order, so first thing, what does the toxicity screen say?

Elon and Tesla are trash.

Good

No they’re not

Model y number 1 selling car in California

Horror movie where the cannibal billionaire is the sole mars colony survivor by the time the rescue ship arrives and he proceeds to hunt the retrieval team for sport, and sustenance, delicious delicious sustenance.

Do you own a Tesla?

Now do every other market that Tesla is in.

NAZI is shorter and still accurate

You mean some people don’t approve of doing Nazi salutes at major political rallies?

"Are" implies it is continuing to happen. Those not paying ongoing attention to e.g. Musk's X posts might have formed the impression his brand destroying toxicity ended when he fell out with Trump last year when, if anything, it all seems to be getting worse. Watch the first few minutes of the video, you'll see what I mean.

You do it

I think the brand is beyond rescue

Unfortunately it’s not doing anything to his stock price.

Looks like you were wrong

"Divisive" It's always ok to cancel a pedophile Neo-Nazi.

Tech bro regards are easy marks

Stock goes up, if being a nazi and maybe a pedo doesn't kill the stock nothing will

Well he discussed german past on a german neo nazi convention a few weeks later...

166k karma says more about you than you understand

Tesla has a devils bargain with Musk \- hes activly killing the brand with his extremism and treating it like a slush fund with his absurd salary demands. \- firing him will absolutely tank the stock price

The point of the video is that he is continuing to poison it, arguably more so this year than last. See e.g. this, covered in the video about a couple of minutes in: [Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January - Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists)

Wow. Who would have thought that a white guy, from South Africa, who famously did a Hitler salute, who comes from a family of known racists, who constantly tweets racists things is indeed . . . a racist. “Divisive Opinions” is putting it mildly for sure.

or better yet, markets which do not have tariffs on other countries evs

Thank God there's only one thing. Just the one.

Color me shocked people don't want to buy products from one of the loudest white nationalists in the country.

He is getting more brazen about it, and hasn't stopped spewing his idiocy but the people who are going to be scared off have mostly already been scared off, and the Kool-Aid drinkers are still drinking.

Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: Elon Musk's tox screen came back, revealing extremely high levels of suprematia generis albi. Lennie Briscoe: Can we have that in English, doc? Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: We're talking about an incredible level of white supremacy, one never before seen in the CEO of a company valued at more than a billion dollars, let alone one with a market capitalisation over a trillion.

Let it burn. He needs a reality check

How has Tesla's market share changed globally? - 2021: 19% - 2023: 13% - 2025: 8% And in the US? - 2022: 62% - 2023: 55% - 2024: 49% - 2025: 46% Seems like they were right. And this is despite other automakers scaling back on EV ambitions.

Title is wrong. His inability to shut the fuck up is what's doing the damage. Lots of tech bros have similarly horrific views.

No, do you? You have my sympathies.

Came here to say this.

My uncle has divisive opinions.

It's almost as bad as the media referring to "Elon's antics".

Seeing his wildest parties enquiries, i am starting to think he doesnt have a choice elae they destroy whatever he has.

No.... As an owner of a 2017 Tesla, I am nothing but proud for Elon to have turned my car into a Model SS. /s

Lol what a terrible insult. Tell me, how's all that fraud doge found going? Anyone been convicted of fraud yet? No? Wonder why.

A zebra 🦓 doesn’t change its stripes… this is nothing new.

I really loved my Tesla. I miss it. But, I won’t drive it with Musk at the helm of that company.

Being a bigot, racist and homophobe are not divisive opinions.

They are from Renton so we should all set a pretty low bar 😉

...in the world.

Funny thing is that even if you vacuumed all the bigotry out of him and into a grain silo, he’d still be a major con artist and a red flag for the brand.

Too late. It's already destroyed.

California is not the entire planet.

I do, purchased in late 2023. Elon has posted or boosted hundreds of smooth-brain takes on Xitter since then, plus all his support of "DOGE" and AfD etc etc.

He’s not mentally stable as well

131K in 2023 -> 127K in 2024 -> 105K in 2025 Not looking too good there, bubb

yeah I thought this 10 years ago, that legacy makers would come out with decent BEVs by 2020-2025. Kinda wrong about that, they went with CCS-1 which was just a horrible thing to saddle themselves with. I'm pretty happy with my 2023 (HW4) AWD Model Y . . . I got it for $40k OTD with all the rebates etc. I stacked. Rivian's R2 looks to be the first offering to top it, and legacy is still a year or two away from matching it I guess.

what are you, 5?

Yet he's asking an asian woman to have his baby?

*Destroyed*. It’s beyond recovery unless the board fires him.

CCS wasn't exactly a bad bet. Europe standardized on CCS2, and the US was about to standardize on CCS1 until Elon panicked and rushed out NACS (basically CCS3) so his government subsidies didn't dry up. NACS is the usual CCS standard but with a different shape of plastic on the end so Teslas wouldn't be locked out.

Have destroyed. You got the tense wrong

🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

Well, he is a fucking nazi, afterall

Elon will likely end up as one of the biggest killers in history, somewhere behind Mao, Salin and Hitler - though considerably ahead of Pol Pot, Idi Amin and others. Yeah, that’ll kill a fucking brand.

I thought it was the crap builds.

It is going to be fun to watch him lose his fortune.

He fried his brain with drugs and became a Nazi. Tesla going down the drain is a tragedy, but a consequence of his craziness.

Not just opinions. Also actions. And lying.

It does not help that shitty captain on wheel and shitty product both contribute, plus there is the competition.

Soylent Green on the red planet.

yeah CCS is invisible as a wire protocol but the form factor of CCS DC charging just sucks compared to NACS. Nobody in their right mind would pick CCS-1 vs. NACS. Agree that Elon panicked in 2023 LOL

I have no doubt that his space ship to Mars is 100% White

Looking like I'll take a 15K depreciation hit to trade in my MY for an R2. Hopefully Scaringe won't lose his marbles like Elon did ca. 2020.

Hitler had immense respect for the Japanese and a generally positive view of Chinese,

I remember when the first Model S when it was delivered to Australia. Even The Soviets would have been embarrassed by the build quality.

Australian EV sales 2025. **Tesla**: **-24.8%** **BYD**: **+77.3%** **Kia**: **+125.2%**

Plenty of other Tech Bros such as Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison are just as racist. But they tend to be more discreet.

Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes used slave labour during WW2. It didn't hurt their reputation,

He has always been a Nazi. The drugs just let his real views come out unfiltered.

The problem with Musk is that he should only communicate with a public via special pr department as any other serious company corporate leaders do, and intead he just can't shut up.

*have destroyed

destroy? more like pull his cock out and piss all over his brand and every owner. shareholder etc.

I'm going to guess garden variety troll, as they delete their entire comment history on the regular.

>Nobody in their right mind would pick CCS-1 vs. NACS. CCS1 has the advantage of working with large numbers of J1772 chargers without an adapter. If the US had mandated CCS like Europe did, we would already have universal charging like they do - instead of facing many more years of consumer confusion. Plus having to update tens of thousands of EV chargers at charger owner expense. So yes, given a choice it might have been sensible to standardize on CCS1.

The Moon now. He's pulled a bait-and-switch, because he knows that going to Mars is an impossibility. It's going to be interesting how the SpaceX IPO unfolds now that he's saddled it with xAI.

I mean, the Legacy automakers did get into the market, but the biggest thing eating their lunch seems to be BYD. At least internationally.

And the Chinese are going to beat NASA/SpaceX in the moon trip

CCS2 is also a US standard now - used for commercial vehicles, because it supports 3 phase, which is much more likely to be present at say a bus depot, and has significant grid benefits. Early EU Tesla's had "Type 2" (ccs2 without the DC pins) which Tesla used based on an obscure subsection of the standards that allowed sharing of the AC pins for DC. This was part legislative, part necessity as many EU homes have 3 phase supplies, but with smaller fuses per phase. Elon had a hissy fit about standards and quite the CCS consortium because the industry was going for CCS2 as a global solution, and moving to CCS2 would mean retooling the body stamps for the Model S very close to launch in order to physically fit the port on.

Are destroying or have destroyed?

He’s extremely lucky BYD isn’t allowed to sell here - they would eat him for lunch and spit him out.

borrowed the swastika from India

He also thought northern Indians and Persians were the OG Germans.

If he ran Tesla as grown up car company the stock would fall 95%. It's a lose-lose situation.

Tragic beyond words. Anyway, does anyone know when the BYD is supposed to arrive in Canada?

Until I watched the video I would have thought 'have destroyed', but what I hadn't realised is how much continuing brand destruction there is, e.g. [near daily white supremacist posting on X](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists).

I think the opinions are quite unifying actually. Now both the left and the right won’t buy Teslas.

“Are destroying” - present tense? Surely past tense: “have destroyed”

Are you trying to pretend that he's not an utterly racist fuck?

He's an egomaniac. He has no ideology other than himself and will say anything to get attention, even things that are shocking or controversial.

I’m so excited for the Scouts to arrive gonna be a while though.

I might have thought so too, but when I watched the video I realsied brand destruction continues apace e.g. [near daily white supremacy posts!](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists)

Didnt think TSLA had any brand identity left that wasn't toxic.

yeah I came from a LEAF. Wise man say committee who try to sit on two stools end up on floor. The ergonomics of the CCS-1/CSS-2 handles are simply atrocious. (CHademo was pretty bad too until they came out with a lighter plastic handle, then it wasn't too bad). I rented a Polestar for a 1500-mile r/t late last year and I got to see how shitty the CCS-1 handles were firsthand. Good riddance. The only downside of NACS is that it doesn't support 3 phase A/C, which could be useful for street side charging.

As if the average terminally online white supremacist didn't fantasize constantly about the good traditional Asian/Eastern women and other mail order bride bullshit. Arguing semantics about Elon's racism at that point is ridiculous.

>The ergonomics of the CCS-1/CSS-2 handles are simply atrocious. In my experience, it's not the CCS connector that's a problem as much as the thick, heavy cables. And that only matters when you're fast charging, which for many EV owners is rare. So we're forcing charger owners and consumers to undergo a costly and confusing transition because one company is run by a guy with weak wrists? Okie dokie. But seriously, sure the J3400 connector is more elegant. Maybe if Tesla had submitted that design to the standards committee in 2012 instead of 2022, things could be better in North America today.

eh we'll get there. CCS was designed by people who hated EVs. Can't wait to get my R2 LOL

>CCS was designed by people who hated EVs. CCS is working fine in Europe, where EV adoption is much higher than in North America. Tesla chargers were designed and hoarded by someone who hated cooperation, making EV adoption here more difficult. Doubly so now that we have to spend another 5-10 years converting existing chargers. But yeah, eventually this will all sort out.

Ok, Tesla is not the number 1 selling car in other markets.

Elon Musk is the Kanye West of carmakers

Yes they are.

I'd quibble with the use of the present tense here; he destroyed the brand some tome ago now

Quick give him $2 trillion dollars!

Destroyed just like his face and his soul

You misspelled stole

the cringey "hey fellow kids" behaviour too

Legacy auto is still way behind, for example look at the top auto maker in world, Toyota, makes a below average BEV. Early adopter Nissan is trying to catch up. Honda decided to stop making its only BEV in USA. Japan as a whole is not going BEV, only Hybrid. Ford flopped its BEV, GM is not doing great with exception of its pricey Cadillac BEV.

J1772 was flawed from beginning, obvious in the ad-hoc scrotum for the DC pins to make CCS1. This also means their needs to be 2 versions of the plug connector, which simply complicates the supply chain. Flip side \~\~Tesla\~\~ Elon should have pushed for a NACS standard years earlier.

Don't do drugs.

Good, tesla is not a good brand, hasn't been for a long time, even if musks leaves it won't make tesla suddenly good

CCS is a useful way to implement fast-charging infrastructure without having to scrap or modify existing level 2 chargers, or require everyone to carry adapters to use those chargers. So essentially every EV in Europe can now use essentially every charger without adapters, and level 2 charger owners didn't have to change anything. Versus in North America we now have tens of thousands of chargers that are effectively obsolete, but many won't get updated so we'll all carry adapters for the foreseeable future. We didn't get rid of an extra plug type, we added a new one. https://xkcd.com/927/ And yes, Tesla should have offered their plug design as a formal open standard a decade earlier than they did.

And even if Tesla had actually made NACS are true open source design, it still wouldn't have fixed the 3 phase problem of Europe. CCS-2 has 4 AC conductors + the 2 data pins in the "type2" + the lower DC pins . I suppose they could have had the same two large pins as NACS to allow for high power DC and an additional 2 smaller lower power pins to offer the additional three phase conductors needed, but that would have a load of problems should the charging site have an imbalanced supply or broken neutral.

I’ve seen brand new Tesla’s have worse panel gaps than a half million mile rural route DAF, and that truck has several collisions that were repaired in house

What was the best selling EV in Europe in 2025? Which brand just scored the highest in JD Power's recent EV owner satisfaction survey?

CCS1 is simply overly complex and cumbersome design, requiring added hardware to deal with obvious limitations with 1772. It adds complexity, materials, mass, and points of failure. 1772 should have been scrapped early on and a NACS like alternate designed. The few thousand cars with it would not be a burden.

The Mennekes **Type 2 connector** would be great connection if they repurposed the AC pins for DC like NACS does, and be universal. Instead it also has the same design flaw as CCS1

Coulda shoulda woulda. J1772 provides tens of thousands of charging points in North America that work with essentially every EV sold here, with low installation costs and modest electrical infrastructure requirements. Tesla could potentially have offered a better alternative if they were willing to follow standards procedures and weren't afraid of losing control of their design. So here we are with J1772, CCS1, Tesla-only DC chargers and now J3400. Or maybe we should scrap all of those and adopt the ChaoJi charging format. 😉

I don’t think he cares about the brand anymore. Strange things happen to people when they make enough money to not care. Elon Trump Kanye Bezos

Elon’s opinions are all correct. Anyone who disagrees is irrelevant.

Musk must go

I guess you only started paying attention last year. The bigot and the culture he fosters at his factories was racially hazing, Black people for years.

Actually, the problem with musk is that he is a racist. People don’t like giving money to bigots, especially when their products are subpar and review poorly compared to EVS from other companies

A normal board would have axed the idiot long time ago....

Ah so we're calling a seig heil a 'divisive opinion'