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Tesla sales down 70% in february year over year in Norway (www.tv2.no)
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[โ€“] gressen@lemm.ee 69 points 5 months ago (26 children)

Who is still buying this joke of a car with fart sounds for turn signals?

[โ€“] boonhet@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

They have pretty awesome powertrains and the infotainment is decent. I can sorta see the allure. That said, I'd rather have the EQE sedan, the i5 wagon or maybe the EX90 if I was looking for an EV right now. We make a lot of decent cars here in Europe (okay I haven't really looked where any of those are assembled, but they're Euro companies at least).

As for the fart sounds - honestly that's one of the better things about the car if you ask me. The engineers had a childish sense of humour, big deal. So do I. I'd be more worried about the somewhat crappy interior quality for the price, or the lack of a speedometer near the driver's normal field of view.

[โ€“] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even if we ignore the muskrat I'm worried about:

  • They fail the first MOT in Denmark.
  • The dash that forces you to look at a screen to operate.
  • The emergency door handles you have to practice finding.
  • The accidents caused by the large engine.

And then there's how they service their cars and the OTA updates.

[โ€“] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna agree with you on the middle two points as I can't be arsed to look up the story about Denmark so I'll just ignore it, but what's that about the large motor(s) causing accidents? That sounds more like user error to me. To Tesla's credit, they even have a "chill mode" acceleration setting that makes it way less sensitive.

I'll admit I've only ever driven one Model Y LR, but even on the full power setting, while it had impressive acceleration, it never felt like I was going to kill myself by looking at the accelerator pedal wrong.

[โ€“] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The issue in Denmark while true, is exacerbated by the brakes not being used due to regen braking which can cause rust to appear on the pads. You fail if there's rust.

You need to use the brakes more often to avoid the rust and or do some intentional hard braking to clear it if it builds up.

That wasn't the only problem, but it was a significant factor.

Edit: another one that I don't know if it impacts the test, is the model 3s front control arms were prone to getting water in them. There was a service bulletin to seal them, but even that wasn't always enough. So that's a pretty common repair item on older models 3s, the result of which is squeaking while driving, but not saftey impact to the vehicle or driver.

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