The scared part is anyone with money can buy the plaid. That’s the scary part seeing some rich parent’s teenager drive it. I can see a lot mishaps in the future.
The funniest part of that video is when he said there's no gear selector -- it's all on-screen. Unless the screen fails, then you look down and there's a gear selector available on the console, but only if the screen fails. Wut? lol. You know that yoke is gonna mess somebody up trying to make a turn or a sudden swerve when they reach for the section of the "wheel" that isn't there. I still think it's too generic and boring-looking for $130k. I'd still go with a Taycan for the better interior/exterior and probably better build quality (though I'm not sure about that).
I was a bit disappointed in the plaid because it doesn’t include the new 4680 batteries that Tesla is developing. In reality, it already blows any other car under 7 figures so far out of the water in any performance metric that upgraded batteries would just be overkill, especially if they still need to delay the product launch for another 6-12 months because the batteries aren’t ready. Trying to order a model X and seeing all Tesla models have 4-7 month wait time. Man that demand sure collapsed the wrong way.
Model Y started delivery in Europe over the weekend with people lining up over an hour for test drives. That European competition sure killed Tesla.
https://hypercharts.co/tsla This is what collapsing demand looks like. And q3/q4 is going to be another blowout with model S ramping back up, Shanghai ramping Y production. 2022 Berlin and Austin starting production. You can see in this thread the ones that can see reality for what it is and the ones eating up that MSM fud bought, paid, sponsored by legacy auto.
Build quality on this made in China car was excellent. Noticeably a step up on my 3 and the equal of anything I've ever driven from Germany. ______ [ ] Likely [✓] Unlikely
LMAO if anyone purchases one of these https://shop.tesla.com/product/tesl...campaign=back_in_stock&utm_term=&utm_content=
Didn’t think this was a huge deal at the time, boy was I wrong. https://www.wsj.com/articles/gms-chevy-bolt-recall-casts-shadow-over-ev-push-11630246736 “GM this month expanded the Bolt safety recall for the second time, calling back the roughly 142,000 models built since it went on sale five years ago. The Detroit auto maker also paused production of all new Bolts. The safety action on its lone U.S. electric car will cost GM an estimated $1.8 billion, or around $12,700 per car, among its costliest recalls.” "We're not going to begin the recall repairs in vehicles until we're confident that LG is building defect-free products for us," he said. "We're working around the clock to get to that point." So no solution any time soon and all Bolt production halted: https://www.freep.com/story/money/c...1/08/30/gm-lg-chem-bolt-batteries/5652862001/ That’s 16 spontaneous combustions in the last couple of months including this one just last night: Man they were right, the competition is on fire! Ok maybe not so much. But at least the Bolt could have called itself third in the US before, so much for that and any semblance of EV credibility from GM anymore.
Anyone can make an EV. Bolt is going to kill Tesla. And Ford. There are those who see it. And there are those who dont.
Yes we know Teslas have a large share in registered EVs. the difference is that the EV market is still small compared to ICE. Tesla can keep growing but their market share will decrease as the market gets bigger. The competition is coming.
I don’t think anyone expects them to keep a 80% market share indefinitely. But the facts are that the only “competition” anywhere close(still less than 10%) just started spontaneously combusting all over the place and has halted production, and it’s doubtful that anyone in their right minds would ever want to buy one again. So yes the fabled competition will surely come one day, it has to, there just isn’t any yet anywhere in sight.
