Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by DangitBobby on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:49AM
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You put out a low tech EV that does basically nothing but accelerate for 200k miles for 15k and you bet your ass people would buy it in droves.
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Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by fragmede on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:20AM
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Would they? Or is it like the small phone segment, where the a very vocal group of hardcore enthusiasts, but when it comes to market size, it turns out theres just not really enough of us out there to sustain the segment.
Cars aren't phones, and maybe a $15k car would sell well in this economy, but with way higher margins on a slightly better car at $40k, why would any automaker willingly give up a big pile of profit?
Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by bombolo on Friday May 26, 2023 @06:35AM
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Well there are no small phones… so we buy large phones, because we still need to buy a new phone occasionally; so marketing research goes: "see!!! LARGE PHONES!!!!!"
This is what you get when you have incompetents doing statistics.
At this point nobody on the planet can fit a phone in their hands, but they keep getting larger.
Re:Whistleblower Drops 100 GB of Tesla Secrets to German New...
by the_overseer on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:31AM
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Because that is what people want. Apple tried repeatedly to sell the iphone mini. The people that said they would totally buy it actually didn't.