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A comment on VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback. Parent comment

Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by meritt on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:20PM (#21337314)
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.

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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by beambot on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:37PM (#21337465)
Inertia is a pain in the ass. VW has a lot of inertia...
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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by raaaaraaaa12 on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:38PM (#21337482)
- hard constraint for VW could be to ensure there will be enough batteries from their suppliers

- lacking infrastructure in cities

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Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback by calvinbhai on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:51AM (#21344140)
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?

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