At $107,000 + 15% taxes I wouldn't want to like it because I wouldn't be able to afford it, or even if it was $50,000.

edit: Canadian dollars and taxes. No we don't have EV rebates in my province.

It seems strange to me how no other company has been able to put together such an attractive package to car enthusiasts like Tesla. Porsche might be close and will eventually get there if the first attempt doesn't succeed, but it really is kind of baffling. But with Elon being a car enthusiast, maybe it makes a bit of sense. Once they're able to do something about EV's low trap speeds, I think it will be time to make the switch, or at least pick one up as a commuter car. 10 or 15 years ago I wouldn't have imagined I'd be a fan of an electric car company. I am a fan of Tesla.

I honestly think it's because they started with an entirely clean slate.

They didn't go into this saying "We're going to design a new vehicle, but it has to be built using the same factories and tooling and processes we've poured a few hundred billion dollars into."

Also remember the large auto manufacturers have hundreds of millions of R&D sunk into internal combustion engines they still need decades to re-coup.

I got a tour of a massive OEM assembly line in the US this summer, and it was utterly jaw-dropping to see how many people are paid to do the most menial tasks possibly imaginable, that could easily be replaced by a robot. I was told the Union forces those jobs to stay, and they're actually the highest paid in the entire factory.