Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.
Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.
Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.
They look like Tesla cars from 10 years ago, which is what I was talking about with maintaining brand design identity versus trend hopping, which is an admirable thing. Like Apple or Starbucks or IKEA, whose product design is instantly recognizable and has been established for decades. I’m talking purely from an industrial design standpoint here.
What am I holding? An iPhone 3 or an iPhone 11?
Apple looks totally different than it did 10 years ago.
But you’re right about IKEA, they haven’t changed shit
Why do you think modern Apple looks totally different than it did 10 years ago? Genuine question. Even with all the criticism of Apple I’ve ever heard, “design inconsistency” has never been one of them.
Totally different and design inconsistency are very different
I understand that the iPhone is basically a slab of glass, like most other phones
This is around 10 years apart for the “desktop” mac