Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c...
by jernfrost on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:48AM
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Building the cheap mass market EV was what we tried in Norway. An utter failure. What it meant was a boring, underpowered car at a high price. Exactly the ugly little cars which EVs where known as. Elon Musk understood you had to start at the high end with low volume and high margin to fund your way to the mass market car.
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Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c...
by vintermann on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @06:39AM
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Ah, the Th!nk. Well well, someone had to learn the hard lessons, so others can learn from them.
Although, learn? It's easy to look at things in retrospect and say this billionaire was correct - but one might be committing the Texas sharpshooter error then. Vinod Khosla bet heavily on bioethanol over electric cars.
Re:Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla c...
by Gravityloss on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @01:20PM
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I think a car that is worse than average is a significantly different thing than a car that is average.