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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by threeseed on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:31AM (#19633713)
If you look at the Volvo Polestar it is easily a peer of Tesla and far exceeds it on the software front with the partnership with Google.

And the car companies are playing in mass market segments that Tesla isn't in e.g. Kia Soul, Renault Zoe, Ford Focus, VW e-Golf etc.

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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by natch on Thursday April 11, 2019 @08:44AM (#19633816)
>Polestar

Comparing vaporware to current Tesla cars makes no sense at all.

And I still have a Volvo. The quality level is astoundingly bad. You don’t want a Volvo.

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Re:Tesla and Panasonic freeze spending on $4.5B Gigafactory by rconti on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:32PM (#19637021)
The Polestar is not shipping. I had a brand new S90 rental last year, and the software was.. not great.

Tesla's just starting in that mass market segment. The prices are very very close to the ones you cite.

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