Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
by sokoloff on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:35PM
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I bought a top-spec 2015 LEAF for $33K before $10K of incentives. If someone paid $45K for a LEAF around the 3's launch, it better have had $10K in cash in the trunk.
Looked at another way, if the LEAF and 3 cost the same, would many people have bought the LEAF?
Re:Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
by SyzygistSix on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:38PM
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Similar cars? Sure, they both have four wheels and are electric. I don't see many similarities though.
Tesla's emergence put the world on track to end ICE cars at least a decade sooner. That is a lot of CO2 that will not be put into the atmosphere. Getting people with expendable income to fund it is both a smart strategy and very equitable.
Their recharge network still sets them apart as well.
The Leaf and the 3 basically met in the middle at the same time at about the $45K price point for similar cars.
Tesla was only first in the category of outrageously expensive cars for virtue-signalling rich people who fake-care about evironmentalism. And fake self-driving.