What will it take to make you seriously consider an EV?

Well, it must make at least 5% sense... what's the 5% that's stopping you?

 

Never sai never

 

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a37852273/2022-lucid-air-dream-edition-drive/

Lucid looks good.

 

The interiors are starting to look nice, but outside of the base model Pure, these are 6-figure cars. I guess you gotta pay for those interiors (and batteries). lol. The range on these can be awesome, though, if the batteries hold up.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/10/25...z-will-purchase-100000-electric-vehicles.html

Record earnings, record stock price, now this. Hertz current ceo Mark Fields was the former ceo of Ford, wonder why he is paying full price on 100k Teslas instead of some discounted Mach Es?

 

Competition is coming

 

Love it, now you get all our rooftops covered in solar panels and you can finally take control of your own energy.

DD

 

They got Brady pimping Teslas. Talk about hitting the tipping point for mass adoption. Escape velocity achieved, trajectory nominal.

 

While y’all were b****ing in here I got rich LOL

 

Analysis: Tesla's iron-based battery plan paves way for Chinese in U.S.
'Our goal is to localize all key parts of the vehicles on the continent'

REUTERS
Oct 24th 2021 at 11:00AM

Tesla wants to shift to a less expensive battery for its electric vehicles but first needs to figure out how to overcome political tensions to get a Chinese partner to build the iron-based batteries near its U.S. factories.

The world's two biggest economies have yet to resolve disputes over tariffs, intellectual property rights and Chinese incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone. And China's sweeping regulatory crackdown, aimed largely at the technology sector, could pose yet another hurdle.

China adopted the technology early and makes 95% of the world's Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries, but key patents expire soon and Tesla said it plans to adopt LFP batteries in its fleet of standard-range vehicles globally and move battery production closer to its factories.

"Our goal is to localize all key parts of the vehicles on the continent," Drew Baglino, senior vice president of powertrain and energy engineering at Tesla, said on an earnings call on Wednesday. Tesla is building factories in the United States and Germany.

"We're working internally with our suppliers to accomplish that goal, and not just at the end-assembly level but as far upstream as possible."

Tesla currently uses LFP batteries from China's CATL in some China-made Model 3 and Model Ys, and in the United States it started sales of entry-level Model 3 sedans with LFP.

The company did not respond to a request for comment.

LFP technology is considered to be cheaper and safer than nickel-based batteries, although they lack the same energy density as nickel-based ones to allow cars to travel farther on a single charge.

The technology has garnered interest from EV makers and Reuters reported in June that Apple Inc is in early stage talks with China's CATL and BYD to get LFP batteries for its planned electric vehicles and wants them to build factories in the United States.

But CATL is reluctant to build a factory in the country due to political tensions between Washington and Beijing as well as cost concerns, people said at that time.

"You cannot discount the whole geopolitical aspect of it," Sanjiv Malhotra, founder of battery startup Sparkz and former U.S. Department of Energy executive, told Reuters.

"Our customers, they do not want to be caught in this political crossfire," said the U.S. startup, which is looking at setting up LFP production lines in the United States to challenge China's dominance.

CATL is probably better off manufacturing in China, where they have access to the world's lowest-cost materials, Roth Capital analyst Craig Irwin said.

"A U.S. facility would need a better U.S. supply chain to get similar to the low cost available in China."

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Meanwhile…

 

Bruh, its transitory. Competition is catching up. Do you not remember when 200 of VW's executives sat down with Musk to tell him how to run Tesla?

BTW, what are Chryslers numbers?

Some ya NGMI.

 

wait you meant sales numbers?

 

how much you made?

 

They are coming for my unrealized gains

 

This is kinda cool. Not to mention the crate ev motors and the Eluminator name :

Ford’s new custom electric pickup truck is a blast from the past

 

https://www.google.com/search?clien...l,[30.476250199822285,-98.03325600878907],10]

This is why it doesn't work for me yet. This and battery strength.

 

Tesla, Y?

 

lolol