Is Elon Musk really putting EV buyers off Tesla?

Musk is absolutely turning customers off of Teslas, especially in countries like Germany. After his "roman salute" as the Trump crowd called it, sales precipitously fell. He then presented a speech via web to the AfD (Alternative for Deutschland) Party where he basically said Germany needs to forget their Nazi past, that multiculturalism would lead to the end of Germany, and that Germans should stop feeling guilty of what happened in WW2. Well.... As someone who had a grandfather fight against those Nazis in Europe, who saw firsthand the aftermath of the Holocaust, and who knows survivors of concentration camps, forgetting or forgiving the Germany of the 1930s and 1940s is the last thing that anyone needs to do. Musk has also lied, blatantly, about the "woke mind virus" and spread debunked far right propaganda. The weirdest thing to me is his obsession with Trump, a man who has hated EVs and deliberately lied about them for years, but who knows wants everyone and their sister to buy a Tesla. It's all for money, and I'm convinced that has been Musk's entire motivation behind Tesla from the beginning of his involvement. His daughter claims he's never really been an environmentally conscious person, and it was all a schtick to sell cars to the environmentally conscious consumer. Now that he has deeply insulted many of those same people who got Tesla to be the company it is today, a lot of them are turning away from Tesla. There's an entire movement in the US where people are selling their Teslas and replacing them with an EV from a different company because they want nothing to do with Musk. On top of that, Musk lies so much about Full Self Driving it is unbelievable to me the EU and US DOJ/FTC/SEC have not launched probes into his dishonest statements. He's been selling FSD as a sure thing for nearly a decade now, but as someone who had a Tesla with said software, I can attest it is not remotely close to actually being truly autonomous. Removing every sensor from the cars except some low resolution optical cameras that have about the same clarity as a cell phone from 15 years ago does not seem like something that would also be able to see everything it needs to see to drive a car in every scenario. When it rains the cameras pop up warnings that they're blinded or blocked, direct sunlight does the same thing, while in low light they cannot see anything beyond the beam of the headlights. We added radar and ultrasonic sensors to cars because they have different capabilities than a simple camera. At what point will Tesla have to stand up and admit it cannot reach "Level 5" autonomy as claimed, and refund all of its FSD customers? I hope that day is near because at this point the grift has been going on since 2016 or 2017. Many of the early cars sold are so old now they are at the end of their useful lifespan. Even if you forget his political antics, the full self driving scam should be enough for you to question anything the man says. When I bought my Tesla in 2019 I paid £6000 for full self driving, yet 6 years on my car is now out of date and cannot even receive the latest updates due to the computer chips it uses. Musk claimed all Teslas sold since 2017 were capable of Full Self Driving, but that's not true either. I hope the governments of the world do step up and go to bat for the consumers who have been conned out of their money. Musk meanwhile has gone from a relative nobody at the bottom of any list of billionaires to being far and above everyone else. All of his worth comes from Tesla stock options given to him by his friends and family on the Tesla board. He owns enough of the stock that he can easily manipulate its price (and he does) on a near daily basis. I truly believe Tesla is going to be in for a rough few years, especially if Musk isn't let go by the board or voted out by shareholders. No intelligent automotive CEO would have ever let his entire lineup get so old without as much as a development mule for a generation 2 product being in the works. Model S is now 15 years old, Model X is over 10, Model 3 is 8 and Model Y is 5. While they've done some refreshes, they didn't do enough to keep them fresh long term. Yet as far as anyone knows, Tesla hasn't even begun developing a new Gen2 Model S or X, while the 3 just finally got updated in its 7th year on sale, signaling it will likely stick around for the next 3-4 years unchanged. The rumored cheap Tesla seems to have been scrapped in exchange for the fictional 2-door robotaxi thing, and the Cybertruck is selling so terribly that they've cut the production line staff down to almost nothing. Tesla has several thousand Cybertrucks, some almost one year old, in inventory . That's a bad sign. If it remains in production for more than a couple of years I'll be surprised. They would be selling 5 times as many if they had just developed a normal looking truck to compete against other EV pickups in America, and also made it comply with European safety regulations. Instead, Musk was convinced this weird stainless steel "dumpster cart on wheels" would be the best selling thing ever. Bet he wishes he'd never sunk over $1 Billion into developing it.