Wanted…….Alternatives to Tesla

The 48-year old CEO of Tesla has been bickering on social media with California and Alameda County officials about reopening Tesla’s Fremont, California electric car manufacturing plant, on which the electric carmaker is unusually dependent, since its only other auto manufacturing plant is the newly-opened Gigafactory outside Shanghai. Recently, Musk took to Twitter to threaten to take his company and go home, if by home, he means new digs in either Nevada, or locations where Tesla is reportedly scouting locations for a new Cybertruck plant, Austin, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma.”

Medicynical note: Musk is a brilliant innovator who is also a Trumpist. He, like Trump, is willing to sacrifice his employees/people’s lives for his own “greater good.” His money appears to come before……… before everything else.

Back in the 50’s and 60’s Volvo made it as a luxury/euro car alternative to the popular well engineered German brands…..I.e. Benz and BMW. in that period many avoided the German cars because of the association with Hitler’s Germany. Volvo emerged as a quality alternative.

Given Musk’s erratic money grubbing behavior I’m beginning to look for the alternative to Tesla…..though I personally will, likely, not be buying it–because of my age.

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