Running a start-up? Lean? The CEO is a billionaire. The company has benefited from hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding.
And none of that has any bearing on corporate policies that encourage managers to fire employees who try to form unions, hiding quality issues, creating parts and tools that only they have access to, penalizing vendors who sell those parts/tools to anyone and telling customers that their cars are either totaled or preventing customers from fixing total cars. EVERY major car company in the world allows customers to work on, fix up or rebuild cars. There is a multi-billionaire industry built around fixing up wrecked cars. They are taking an Apple approach to cars - overcharge for repairs, trick consumers into buying new when older cars can be fixed and use lobbyists to create laws that penalize consumers from fixing products that they bought with their hard earned money.
He isn't complaining about Tesla. He's complaining about their actions against him. He has every right to complain.
Do you realize people have gone to PRISON for doing something as simple as making and selling computers that can run Apple OS? Tesla is employing all the same strategies.
It's the first step in monopolizing the electric car industry. Oh, and by the way - monopolies are illegal in democratic countries - like AMERICA. It's bad for business, innovation and violates consumer laws meant to protect YOU.
IF they got their heads out of their asses, they could make an easy $100 million a year just working with shops that want to repair Teslas. But, alas the Elon Ego and Corporate Facism stands in the way of protecting American ideals and time-tested industry protections.
You should probably do more reading about Tesla. You'll be shocked. Guarantee it. A guy rebuilding a 100 wrecked Tesla's is not the problem.
