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New European car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA.
BYD recorded 13,503 new registrations in July, up 225% annually.
Elon Musk’s automaker faces a number of challenges in Europe, including intense ongoing competition and reputational damage to the brand.
There’s plenty of cars without rear doors at all, never seen them criticized the way people criticize the “non-obvious mechanical release” of teslas. It’s basically grasping at straws to justify the hate of musk, as if he he didn’t do enough shit himself already to fully justify all blowback.
I’ve just realized the back seat of my two door car is a death trap thanks to your comment.
… Good thing nobody ever rides back there and it’s just used for storage.
In those cars the front seats fold down super easy (usually pull one lever or press one button) so you can just get to the front doors which usually have fairly obvious opening mechanics.
Yeah it’s a common thing - if people don’t like something, they will be very critical of everything related to it. Many people are not capable or even really interested in being fair; if you mention this you will be accused of “defending” them.