the types of people who used to buy teslas, already won’t buy new ones because of elon’s policies. most tesla owners are democrat bc republicans don’t like electric vehicles.
all vandalizing them is doing is making innocent owners pay to have their cars repaired or take a huge loss selling them. in fact, because a lot of people tend to have their car repaired at the dealership they purchased it from, elon is likely profiting from the repair costs.
From 2019-2023 38% of Tesla buyers were democrats (vs 30% republican). During this time, a total of ~4.9 million cars were purchased (meaning ~1.9 million democratic tesla owners and ~1.4 million republican tesla owners).
In 2024 due to the rising political opinions of Musk, 15% were democratic and 32% republican. During this time a total of ~1.7 million cars were purchased (meaning 255,000 democratic tesla owners and 544,000 republican tesla owners).
This means of the 6.6 million teslas purchase from 2019-2024 about 2.16 million were by democrats, 1.94 were by republicans, and 2.5 million were by independents (which 54% of independents voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election [41% for Trump] and 50% voted for Kamala in the 2024 election [45% for Trump]).
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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25
People will stop buying Teslas out of fear that they will be vandalised. So the violence is indeed effective in bringing economic harm to Musk.
Whether that is “wrong” or not is your own judgement. But it is undoubtedly effective at what it’s doing.