Re:I don't want to go back to social media
by EvanAnderson on Sunday November 20, 2022 @10:53AM
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I assume there isn’t enough gross margin on small cheap cars and consumers have shown they’ll just buy the larger, more margin-filled alternatives.
Re:I don't want to go back to social media
by rglullis on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:00AM
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> there are plenty of cheap, small, large production ICE cars
If there are, then why are you complaining that they "won't sell them to you"?
> There is no reason this three cannot exist together. None.
Mineral resources to make the batteries? Why do you think that Tesla has a waiting period of months.
Re:I don't want to go back to social media
by bbarnett on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:09PM
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If there are, then why are you complaining that they "won't sell them to you"?
I complained about no such thing.
Mineral resources to make the batteries? Why do you think that Tesla has a waiting period of months.
Certainly not for this reason. Telsa has always been months, even years behind on deliveries.
Re:I don't want to go back to social media
by SyzygistSix on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:47PM
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I agree but they are two very different products despite both being cars.
And expecting a new company to scale to the size needed to produce cheap vehicles en masse in an economically sustainable way is unrealistic and unfair as a criticism. Even the largest car companies are finding it difficult.
The three will exist together, like the Corolla, Camry etc. But it will take a while to scale up to that. People are expecting Rome to be built in a day and whining because it isn't.
But... there are plenty of cheap, small, large production ICE cars. And we've been told that EVs are less complicated, with the president of Ford, last week, claiming they take 1/2 the labour to build.
There is no reason this three cannot exist together. None.