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Re:BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics by carlsborg on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:16PM (#20365044)
To some extent true, but Bmw i8 phev was available for delivery 2014. Bmw i3 in late 2013. Model S deliveries began in mid 2012.
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Re:BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics by FullyFunctional on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:43PM (#20365255)
Everything began with the Tesla Roadster showing that you could build an attractive all-electric car. That was in 2008. There is no way anyone could seriously claim that was an evolution of the hybrid lackluster NiMH Toyota Prius.

ADD: what actually begat the Roadster was AC Propulsion’s 2003 Tzero [1], a company which can be traced back to the famous EV1 (of “Who Killed The Electric Car”).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Propulsion_tzero

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Re:BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics by techslave on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:50PM (#20365791)
> Everything began with the Tesla Roadster showing that you could build an attractive all-electric car.

no.

the car mfrs already knew you could build such a thing. the reason they didn’t is they had no reason to build a loss leader product.

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Re:BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics by FullyFunctional on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:25PM (#20461203)
And thus Tesla created the reason
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