ALL the Tesla drivers are taking the bus because their $50,000+ "car of the future" can't run in the cold. Looks like consumers will still be buying a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, not one with unreliable batteries.
Granola power doesn't work very well when you're outside California, it seems...
Elon, possibly the most successful African American
Honest answers: Because people buy Teslas to virtue signal. (Not all, and might be more perception than reality.)
Because Tesla relied heavily on taxpayer subsidies. (So too the other American auto manufacturers though.)
Because people like internal combustion engines that can be serviced and used with simple tools for decades.
You: Why don't people like Tesla? Me: Here you go. You: BUT THEY'RE AMAZING!
Whatever. Serves me right for thinking that you wanted a real answer.
Yeah no.
People buy teslas because they have no maintenance and shit on hypercars 0-60 while doing 150mpg effective.
He wasn't asking why people buy Teslas, he was asking why people don't like them.
If they made a product that worked reliably in the cold (real cold, not Florida 'cold') then more people would be driving them.
It has nothing to do with where they're manufactured. If Tesla was interested in selling more units in cold climates, then they should've made them more resilient. Until then, the car companies that sell vehicles with internal combustion engines will pick up the sales (everyone but Tesla).