Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag
by double0jimb0 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @09:18PM
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Have you shopped for a car lately?
What you get for your money:
20k-40k: Plastic
40k-75k: Plastic painted to look like metal and wood veneers
75k+: Maybe metal and real wood
This refers to everything you touch and see in and outside the car.
US manufactures aren’t in the 75K+ market for sedans, US mfgs only know plastic.
For the Germans, you need to be in flagship cars to get away from metalized plastic (A7/A8, S-class, 7-series). Porsche is a safe bet for real materials.
Tesla replaced everything inside the car with a giant, great looking screen. 90% of the “value engineering” by which existing car makers use to differentiate between their Low and high end cars... Tesla just got rid of it. Tesla has no intention on playing in the “value engineering” traditional mfgs have been doing for decades (it was the only innovation game left to play).
Tesla instead is competing with tech and features they can literally upload to your car overnight. There is no comparison to traditional autos.
Tesla is an iPhone moment for car industry (if they can manage to deliver the quality and experience they promise without going out of business).
What you get for your money:
20k-40k: Plastic
40k-75k: Plastic painted to look like metal and wood veneers
75k+: Maybe metal and real wood
This refers to everything you touch and see in and outside the car.
US manufactures aren’t in the 75K+ market for sedans, US mfgs only know plastic.
For the Germans, you need to be in flagship cars to get away from metalized plastic (A7/A8, S-class, 7-series). Porsche is a safe bet for real materials.
Tesla replaced everything inside the car with a giant, great looking screen. 90% of the “value engineering” by which existing car makers use to differentiate between their Low and high end cars... Tesla just got rid of it. Tesla has no intention on playing in the “value engineering” traditional mfgs have been doing for decades (it was the only innovation game left to play).
Tesla instead is competing with tech and features they can literally upload to your car overnight. There is no comparison to traditional autos.
Tesla is an iPhone moment for car industry (if they can manage to deliver the quality and experience they promise without going out of business).