Despite several offset wares that seem to tracks otherwise, a dating app nonbelligerent for Tesla owners isn't salted -- at least not yet.
The brainchild of Canadian developer Ajitpal Grewal, the Tesla Dating Co. website says it's "an exclusory connotation of like-minded Elon stans. You know, the maternal of bodies that really understand you." The site asks for an email birdcage as well as notes users "must prove Tesla ownership surpassing launch." Conceivably its tagline is the first hint that this is all meant to be in good-tasting fun: "Because you can't spell LOVE without EV."
"Yes, the ambition with the site starting out was parody, which I let everyone know," Grewal said in an email to The Verge. "But, I did additionally say that if I see fatso absorption I would inherit taking the app to launch. Accordingly far I've been seeing really a bit of traction."
That absorption may be due to the here that Grewal told unique media outlets unique things eccentrically his pre-launch dating service. He's quoted in The Wall Street Journal truism that Tesla ownership becomes a big part of someone's identity: "Suddenly it hit me: These bodies would be precise for each other." It's similar to what he told Commerce Insider. Accordingly maybe he didn't spell out to everyone that the site began as (and mostly still is) a joke?
And the site looks... tangy real, synonymic including screenshots of what the Tinder-inspired app looks like (or would squint like):
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. To be sure, Tesla owners are a fancier bunch, stanning for CEO Elon Musk as well as hanging on his every tweet for divisions eccentrically usable features, new models, as well as anything else that crosses his mind. My coworker Bijan Stephen described their devoutness to the Tesla CEO in a 2018 profile:
Musk -- the South African-born multibillionaire known for high-profile, risky investments such as Tesla (electric cars), SpaceX (private space travel), the Dragging Visitor (underground travel), as well as Neuralink (neurotechnology) -- has reaped the perks of a dexterity in which fandom dominates nearly everything. While his detractors see him as culling out-of-touch, nonclerical rich guy who either can't or won't confess the forfeiture he as well as his companies are doing, to his fans, Musk is a visionary out to save humanity from itself
So it would operate sense to try to pair up some of these fancier fans. Nonbelligerent note that Tesla Dating Co. has no official banding with Musk or the car company, as well as there's no semblant timeline for when the app oyster be available.
Grewal told The Verge in an email that the site had 1,000 signups as of Friday morning. He says he doesn't kumtux plans to do anything with the email addresses he's harvested from the site accordingly far, over-and-above than application them to notify bodies if the app someday launches.
"While I do kumtux levelheadedness compages apps, I haven't launched anything to scale," Grewal added. "I'm unclosed to hearing from anyone who is lured in helping out."
As for what maternal of car he drives, Grewal's retort was a bit surprising: "I would like to own a Tesla, loosely for now I get circa finished with my zero-emission bicycle," he said.
UPDATE: High-ranking 21st 10:44AM ET: Affixed comments from Ajitpal Grewal
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