{"id":89761,"date":"2025-02-22T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=89761"},"modified":"2025-02-23T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T00:05:06","slug":"the-tesla-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/the-tesla-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase Shift: The Tesla Dilemma &#8211; Can You Love The Batteries But Loathe The Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-89784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/anti-elon-tesla-club.jpg\" alt=\"anti elon tesla club\" width=\"1201\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/anti-elon-tesla-club.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/anti-elon-tesla-club-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/anti-elon-tesla-club-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/anti-elon-tesla-club-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1201px) 100vw, 1201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I found myself at a gig in Adelaide watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesmyths.net\/\">&#8220;The Smythes&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; a tribute band to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/3yY2gUcIsjMr8hjo51PoJ8?si=trKcPF_pSgWPLNKfPyTP0A\">The Smiths<\/a>. As I stood there with my Coopers enjoying &#8220;There Is A Light That Never Goes Out&#8221;, I thought of the blackout protection I enjoy thanks to my Powerwall 2.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes even at gigs, I can&#8217;t help thinking about bloody solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>Then it struck me: here I was, gleefully singing along to songs that still bring immense joy in 2025, while their original creator, The Smiths&#8217; frontman Morrissey, has become someone whose views I can&#8217;t stomach.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same Morrissey who in 2019 performed wearing a far-right For Britain badge and claimed: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/muslim-civil-rights-group-urges-fans-to-boycott-bigoted-morrissey\/vh9ap5l88\">&#8220;everyone ultimately prefers their own race.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89765\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89765\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A band performing on stage\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_3870-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tribute act The Smythes at The Gov, Adelaide Feb 15 2024.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many Aussie consumers are wrestling with a similar reality: Tesla makes exceptional products that have genuinely accelerated the world&#8217;s electrification, but Elon Musk&#8217;s behaviour has become increasingly difficult to defend. The man who once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@60minutes9\/video\/7234033060033957121\">teared up<\/a> when he learned of energy poverty in Australia now spends his days <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/sep\/14\/elon-musk-tweets-trump-conspiracy\">spreading conspiracy theories<\/a> and making inflammatory statements without bothering to check their accuracy or worry about the human consequences.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s a conscientious Australian energy nerd to do?<\/p>\n<p>First up, it&#8217;s perfectly okay to loathe Elon and love Tesla. We progressives often get caught between being right and being effective. Yes, Musk may have taken too much credit from the brilliant engineers who built these products. Yes, his constant &#8216;war mode&#8217; state is hard to stomach. But it&#8217;s hard to deny that without Tesla&#8217;s innovation, we wouldn&#8217;t have the EV market we have today. Tangible progress often comes from imperfect vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, it&#8217;s absolutely valid to boycott Tesla because you can&#8217;t bear the thought of adding to Musk&#8217;s wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m living this dilemma. I own two Teslas and a Powerwall; they&#8217;re great. But would I buy another Tesla energy product while Elon&#8217;s at the helm? Probably not. The competition has finally caught up, and there&#8217;s enough choice that the home energy storage market no longer needs Tesla to thrive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89397\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/best-home-batteries-2025\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89397\" class=\"wp-image-89397 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/best-batteries-2025-votes.png\" alt=\"Vote tallies for &quot;Best batteries&quot; in 2025\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/best-batteries-2025-votes.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/best-batteries-2025-votes-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/best-batteries-2025-votes-768x460.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years of dominating the best battery category in our Installers\u2019 Choice Awards, Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/best-home-batteries-2025\/\">this year had to share the limelight<\/a> with Sungrow \u2014 with Sigenergy not far behind.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89811\" style=\"width: 805px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89811\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tesla-vs-sigenergy-app.jpg\" alt=\"home energy apps\" width=\"795\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tesla-vs-sigenergy-app.jpg 795w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tesla-vs-sigenergy-app-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tesla-vs-sigenergy-app-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla App vs. SigEnergy App. Tesla has certainly inspired other brands to up their game.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cars, though? That&#8217;s trickier. As a cyclist who&#8217;s lost dear friends to car accidents and faces weekly near-misses with human drivers, I&#8217;m desperate to see autonomous vehicles become reality. I believe Tesla, for all its faults, is leading this race. Their autonomous driving technology could save millions of lives.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, still enjoying my Smiths playlist while refusing to buy Morrissey&#8217;s solo work. Still driving my Tesla while cringing at Elon&#8217;s latest tweets. Sometimes progress comes packaged with paradox, and that&#8217;s okay. What matters is that we keep moving forward, preferably in a sun-powered EV \u2014 whoever makes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I found myself at a gig in Adelaide watching &#8220;The Smythes&#8221; &#8211; a tribute band to The Smiths. 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