Thread by @ton_aarts

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For all my foreign #Tesla friends #TSLAQ

One year ago I made this informative thread, on #Schiphol #taxi drivers. Who didn't like their new $143k Tesla taxi's breaking down three times a week. (We're rather fussy people, the Dutch)

2018 Thread:

https://twitter.com/ton_aarts/status/1053548584292007936

All of those 167 Amsterdam Schiphol airport taxi's are privately owned by these drivers.

So if their Tesla taxi breaks down: no income. (Can't use another Tesla taxi, by law. Even it wás available, which it isn't)

So if it breaks down 33 individual times one one Tesla taxi ..

Besides huge unreliability problems another problem was added: 1/ Tesla didn't want them using their superchargers and 2/ started charging them (!) for use of "forever free" superchargers: $0,20 per kWh ..

Even through another company, which is illegal data sharing by itself ..

Today a bunch of them are taking Tesla to court.

They are fed up, and want their money back from Tesla. One of Dutch leading newspapers @nrc has brought out this -very sobering- piece on it.

Conclusion: Tesla is one big joke ..

translate.google.com/translate?hl=n…

@nrc Here's the original NRC article in Dutch:

Headline: 'In 3 years the (one) Tesla taxi required 33 returns to Tesla'

(Meaning: 33 times no income for this one taxi driver. Thanks to #TeslaQualityIssues & #TeslaServiceIssues)

nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/11…

And, just for that little extra background info: (always fun to find out how 'safe' those "automated emergency braking" Tesla's are)

Bonus thread ⬇️on some Schiphol Tesla taxi's hitting everything possible on the road, even .. other Tesla taxi's (twice!)

https://twitter.com/ton_aarts/status/1150700347360456706?s=20