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dont-YOLO-ragequit t1_iyaoxa1 wrote

This article explains nothing on the matter.

Does GM officially endorse and targets repairs on Teslas or are dealers(or mega dealers) using their cross manufacturer connections to get it done?

For exemple, lots of dealer networks just setup a big used car network to funnel less desirable trade ins to and use all the dealers to get parts. You come and trade in an Audi at a BMW dealer, if it is low mileage, they sent it to the Audi dealer to be certified and sold at premium in the group, if it has more mileage, it gets sent to the used car outlet who will use local car parts and parts from the Audi dealer.

In this way, a GM dealer could be seen as flipping Teslas and thus repairing them.

In an other way, customers could have figured out that it is cheaper or less time to repair to just go to a GM dealer, talk with the service advisor and get brakes, Suspension, wheels and other fast moving repairs done than to deal with the hassle of Tesla's post sale service.

Last could be that Tesla has yet to make proprietary OBD codes around their EV diagnosis and most EV techs can easily work on all EVs which, Not only GM but Nissan, Ford and others do.

All of this can be intercepted as what is being told through the grapevine.

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Bluest_waters t1_iybuq0h wrote

Tesla's secret is that it thrives on selling billions of dollars worth of carbon credits to major auto makers. Tesla is happy because they get money, the auto makers are happy because they don't have to actually produce large amounts of EV. Some years the money Tesla makes off the carbon credits represent nearly their entire profit.

So GM is quietly fixing Tesla in part because it wants Tesla to keep doing what its doing.

Problem for Tesla is that more and more major auto makers have EVs coming online and they expect their EV sales to jump. That means less demand for carbon credits, which means lower profits for Tesla. Plus Elon is going to be forced to contineu to sell Tesla stock to service his twitter debts for the foreseeable future. Both of these things will be putting downward pressure on Tesla stock months, possibly years, to come.

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sexygodzilla t1_iyc85us wrote

Honestly with the dramatic downward spiral Twitter is on I have to wonder if he ends up losing control of Tesla entirely and it ends up getting acquired.

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LiquidateGlowyAssets t1_iyckqip wrote

Inshallah it gets broken up and the actually productive parts nationalized. Their solarcity acquisition was basically a scam against their shareholders, as was the CEO using corporate assets to gamble billions of dollars on worthless cryptocurrencies.

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Bensemus t1_iyeizij wrote

For this year credits made up less than 10% of Tesla's profits. It's greatly exaggerated how much Tesla makes and relies on EV credits.

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Deyln t1_iychbq8 wrote

And it's these same not-tesla automakers that kept throwing monkey wrenches in the way to service things.

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Puzzleheaded-Cod4909 t1_iyccydc wrote

IMO, any chunk of Tesla's money they can take a bite out of, the better. At least it'll lessen the blow for people that got fooled into buying one.

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mjrmjrmjrmjrmjrmjr t1_iyb2h19 wrote

Interpreted!!!!!

Intercepted?! You think we’re taking about football here, son?!!!!

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