Re:Tesla Second Quarter 2018 Update
by rconti on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @06:58PM
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I'm sorry, but this strikes me as extremely disingenuous.
They didn't invent the market, the Prius was just a better Honda Insight (primarily by virtue of having 3 more seats). Again, they deserve massive credit for their accomplishments.
But, again, they lose the "sales increase" by a wide margin unless you tweak that by insisting on limiting it to "a single model".
Certainly we don't know if Tesla will survive but the challenges facing a new carmarker of any sort are simply massive, rather than just producing a slightly-differently-propelled model in addition to the millions of conventional cars you already produce.
And where you really fall over is by trying to argue about "the non-liftback models" which I can only presume means the discontinued[1] Prius V which is a slightly-differently-bodied version of an existing car.
They didn't invent the market, the Prius was just a better Honda Insight (primarily by virtue of having 3 more seats). Again, they deserve massive credit for their accomplishments.
But, again, they lose the "sales increase" by a wide margin unless you tweak that by insisting on limiting it to "a single model".
Certainly we don't know if Tesla will survive but the challenges facing a new carmarker of any sort are simply massive, rather than just producing a slightly-differently-propelled model in addition to the millions of conventional cars you already produce.
And where you really fall over is by trying to argue about "the non-liftback models" which I can only presume means the discontinued[1] Prius V which is a slightly-differently-bodied version of an existing car.
[1] https://www.toyota.com/priusv/