Tencent buys 5% of Tesla

Re:Tencent buys 5% of Tesla by greglindahl on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:10PM (#13978416)

I'm having a hard time connecting the facts with the discussion. Are you saying that GM should have made a crossover instead of the Volt/Bolt? Are you saying that Tesla doesn't have a crossover?

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Re:Tencent buys 5% of Tesla by timr on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:15PM (#13978479)

"I'm having a hard time connecting the facts with the discussion. Are you saying that GM should have made a crossover instead of the Volt/Bolt? Are you saying that Tesla doesn't have a crossover?"

GM already has a crossover line. In fact, it has a bunch, and they sell really well:

http://www.gmfleet.com/vehicle-search/by-body-style/suvs-cro...

Point out Tesla's crossover SUV with the range of a gasoline vehicle and the price point of a Chevy Equinox ($25k). I'll wait.

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Re:Tencent buys 5% of Tesla by chc on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:52PM (#13978850)

> Point out Tesla's crossover SUV with the range of a gasoline vehicle and the price point of a Chevy Equinox ($25k). I'll wait.

Whoa — you have to realize what you just did there, right? This is a massive shifting of the goalposts from what you said Tesla's problem was earlier, which is that SUVs and light trucks are what sells.

Anyway, I don't think most people with SUVs actually go through a full tank of gas a day, so having completely equal range doesn't seem like that big an issue. So now it sounds like Tesla's major problem is that they're competing with the Range Rover rather than the Equinox.

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Re:Tencent buys 5% of Tesla by astrange on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:11PM (#13980762)

How large are those cars? No wonder traffic is so bad.

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