Politics F' Elon Musk!

Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, US lawsuit claims

(Reuters) - Tesla faces a proposed class action claiming it speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk's company from having to pay for repairs.

The plaintiff Nyree Hinton alleged that Tesla odometer readings reflect energy consumption, driver behavior and "predictive algorithms" rather than actual mileage driven.

He said the odometer on the 2020 Model Y he bought in December 2022 with 36,772 miles on the clock ran at least 15% fast, based on his other vehicles and driving history, and for a while said he drove 72 miles a day when at most he drove 20.

Hinton, a Los Angeles resident, said this caused his 50,000-mile basic warranty to expire well ahead of schedule, leaving him with a $10,000 suspension repair bill that he thought Tesla should cover.

"By tying warranty limits and lease mileage caps to inflated 'odometer' readings, Tesla increases repair revenue, reduces warranty obligations, and compels consumers to purchase extended warranties prematurely," the complaint said.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-speeds-odometers-avoid-warranty-213536596.html

 

Even worse, after they claim Elon did nothing wrong, they'll go after all the people who use Teslas for Uber and Lyft and believed their ODO for the mileage deduction for tax fraud.

 

Elon took Teslas name and Trump (well his uncle anyway) took Teslas papers and ideas.

 

Elon Musk Calls Claims That He’s a Nazi ‘Outrageous’
Elon Musk, the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, said “it’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Nazi” in a clip from an interview with Fox News that was released Friday, slamming how he’s been covered by the media. He also said that if his detractors could “press a button” and kill him, they would, but he is “difficult to kill.”

At Trump’s post-inauguration rally, Musk gave a straight-arm salute that many, including his estranged daughter, interpreted to be a Sieg Heil. Since he bought Twitter, now social platform X, he has restored white supremacist accounts that were previously banned. In March, as he was carrying out widespread firings of federal workers, he shared a post from an X account that said that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Mao Zedong didn’t cause the deaths of millions of people. Instead, public workers did. After criticism, he removed the post.

Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Musk spoke virtually at a campaign event for a far-right German political party, Alternative für Deutschland. He said that Germans should not lose their culture to “multiculturalism.”

“Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents,” he said.

Musk has become increasingly unpopular as he slashes the federal government via DOGE, cutting agencies and programs. Tesla dealerships have been the location of protests, vandalism, and arson; the company’s cars have been given the name “swasticars.” In March, Musk said that he and the DOGE team were getting death threats on a daily basis.

“You grew up in South Africa,” Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law and Fox News host, said in the new interview. “You lived during a period of Apartheid. I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of horrific things. So to be called a Nazi by people, to be made out to be this monster, that must be really hard for you.”

“It’s a relentless propaganda campaign, which obviously President Trump has experienced for a very long time,” Musk said. “Twenty years, maybe longer. And politics is a blood sport. So they’re going to come up with whatever attacks they can to destroy the public perception of someone.”

“Now, obviously,” he continued, “I’ve not harmed anyone in my life, so it’s an outrageous thing to claim that I’m a Nazi, because the issue with Nazis was not their mannerisms or their, you know, choice of dress, but the fact that they killed millions of people. That’s the issue. They’ve also called President Trump a Nazi, and there was one publication that said He’s … worse than Hitler, Stalin, and maybe Mao combined, but he also is not a violent person, and, in fact, has done a lot to prevent wars and stop wars, which is the very opposite of being a Nazi.”

“Ironic how that works out,” Lara Trump said.

“But it is disappointing how well propaganda works,” Musk said. “If you repeat a lie, you know, the sort of ‘he’s a Nazi’ line enough times, some people actually believe it, especially people that still believe the legacy news. So if they still think that what CNN says with the exception of Scott Jennings is true, then, you know, they call me an Nazi on CNN. So if someone believes CNN, then they would say, ‘Oh … that’s an Nazi.’ That’s because they said it on TV. The person on the TV said it. But they really are trying every angle to get me.”

In January, Elon Musk’s mother had encouraged him in a post on X to sue CNN after Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell argued with conservative panelist Scott Jennings about the straight-arm gesture. Rampell told him he should do the same gesture on television if it was not controversial.
“Why don’t you do it on TV right now? Why don’t you do it on TV right now if you think it’s so, so banal,” Rampell said. Jennings, of course, did not do the gesture.

In his interview with Lara Trump, Musk said he thinks some people want him dead.
“If they could press a button and kill me in reality, they would press that button immediately, but since I’m a little difficult to kill, they are doing character assassination instead,” he said.

It’s unclear who the “they” is he’s referring to, but it appears he’s getting paranoid.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-nazi-claims-fox-news-1235330984/

 

"I only did the Nazi salute on national TV twice. I don't understand why people think I'm a Nazi."

barfo

 

It's cute he talks about how a lie and propaganda can happen when this nazi fucking idiot got played by that very thing.