Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by calvinbhai on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:15PM
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how reliable are these projections? Replace VW with TSLA and the Tesla naysayers / TSLAQ will claim the company is doomed...
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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by meritt on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:20PM
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You're curious whether or not it's realistic for an 82-year-old automotive company with 122 worldwide production plants who produced 11.1M cars last year compared to Tesla's 254k can have just 8 facilities producing electric cars in ~2 years from now?
That seems like a fairly reasonable goal to me.
Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by beambot on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:37PM
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Inertia is a pain in the ass. VW has a lot of inertia...
Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by raaaaraaaa12 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:38PM
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- hard constraint for VW could be to ensure there will be enough batteries from their suppliers
- lacking infrastructure in cities
Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by calvinbhai on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:51AM
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Not saying whether they can build or not.
Will they have enough demand?
There's nothing like a Supercharger network to make people buy so many non TSLA electrics. So, how will VW have so much demand to create so much capacity?
Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by 0xcase on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:38PM
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VW is much larger than Tesla, has more money and already way over 100+ facilities around the globe. Tesla has 3
Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by calvinbhai on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:49AM
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Agreed they are larger. But, VW has lied proportionally more than Tesla.