Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag

Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by reacharavindh on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:07AM (#19746861)

Do you have any info about VW's batteries? If they are building up MEB for the next 2-3 years, they should have some idea of what they are going to do about batteries by now right?

So far, it appears that batteries and drive train efficiency are the secret to Tesla's dominance in efficiency. VW would be a dumb competitor if it comes out in 2-3 years with a car that costs as much or more than a Tesla with only 60% of its range.... there is risk for VW as well here..

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by _Codemonkeyism on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:48AM (#19747049)

Several tests comparing Tesla with NIO show that the efficiency is the same, so not sure about "batteries and drive train efficiency are the secret to Tesla's dominance in efficiency."

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by bryanlarsen on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:29AM (#19748511)

Niro has efficiency but it's fast charging and acceleration is considerably worse than Tesla's.

eTron has fast charging and acceleration but efficiency is considerably worse than Telsa's.

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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by _Codemonkeyism on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:26PM (#19749722)

Thanks didn't know, was just replying to the parents "efficiency" argument.

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