Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you’ll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.
I thought this was a link from the onion at first. What are they doing LMAO
To be fair, that looks like a bitchen grabber
Tesla is such a joke of a company lmao, cant understand why there are still people fanboying over it
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Are they popular in Italy?
And I see their chargers everywhere. Best infrastructure
I would have killed for one five years ago… Today, I have no interest.
While I don’t buy that a great CEO can turn a whole company around, I DO think it’s safe to say that a bad one can damage a good company.
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Hold up… Why are they not making them with the proper configuration though? I used to work at Tesla’s Fremont plant and part of what I did required slightly different work depending on if the current thing on the line was supposed to be left or right-hand drive.
Just not making them at all anymore. The few countries that are RHD aren’t big enough markets for them to bother making the S and X for them anymore. We here in AUS are stuck with just the 3 and Y now, and any existing S and X models.
It just doesn’t make sense not to make them when it literally was the same process to make a RHD as a LHD vehicle. It doesn’t cost extra money or use extra parts. It’s just “oh this part goes on this side instead of this side.”
If they stopped making them entirely, it’s more than likely out of spite than any other reason.
I dunno, there’s retooling a factory as well as team training for QC, and surely some parts would differ as it would be mirrored.
They’re making them for Australia, which is the same side of the road as UK.
We’re not getting the S and X anymore. We’re still getting the 3 and Y.
Tesla has plans to start production in India soon. I wonder how they’ll cope up in India which also predominantly has left hand drive.
The long tail of global colonialism ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
Also, while not entirely accurate, an even older history, ahem, driving, the modern world http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Without India I suspect Driving on the Left would be relegated to history books by simple economics.
Though with EVs a lot of the production costs of doing both could be eliminated.
Auatralia drives on the left
And doesn’t make cars any more. If it became increasingly prohibitive to source LHD vehicles, I’m sure they’d decide to switch around.
Japan is where we get a lot of our cars from… And they’re RHD. So even if companies like tesla stop producing them we’ll still have others to buy from
I don’t think we would
Yes that’s true. Most of the Left Hand drive world is former British colonial. Except for the population size of India, the vast majority of the world drives on the Right. If a company wants to produce vehicles, do you incur the expense of an entirely separate build process for a small minority of the population? Some might but most would pick the majority and build for that.
Cool, guess I’ll buy a different EV then.
Love this
I genuinely can’t tell if the headlines are satire these days
That basically sums up everything that comes out of the emerald baby’s fanciful brain farts. A walking joke that has gone on so long that the sad manchild has to do ever more expensive corporate stunts mixed with decade-old cringe humour to stay relevant. After all the shit he’s pulled lately, I’m not even surprised any more.
Wow. I wonder if anyone will actually accept that. I guess other markets with right-hand-drive like Japan, Hong Kong will get the same deal.
They’ve stopped selling the Model X and S entirely in Australia, rather than providing the option of LHD vehicles like in the UK. Though if I was hypothetically in the market for these vehicles, I’d rather not buy one than have inconveniences that a grab stick is meant to help with…
It’s not just things like reaching for ticket machines, anyone who’s taken their car to a country on the other side of the road knows how disconcerting it is to drive. Oncoming traffic is now in the far side of your vehicle which just makes it less comfortable to drive. You get used to it of course, but it’s never the same as driving on the correct side. No RHD is an absolute deal breaker for many UK drivers in sure
Try overtaking a bus on a country lane without being able to peek out from behind it.
How can this be legal in the EU? Will they just stop selling in Ireland? I know the insurance bumps up for left hand drive I know that… This has to be a joke right?
I can’t imagine that at this point it would be a good idea to invest in anything this clown has his fingerprints on.
Tesla bascailly pulled the S and X out of the UK market and from what I’ve seen on the forums people aren’t interested in a left hand drive car. Not even sure why they even offered to sell them, unless they were worried about being sued by all the people with deposits.
Ngl this is quite hilarious
