Re:Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
by lotsofpulp on Monday May 12, 2025 @01:43AM
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Rivians and Lucids cost tens of thousands of dollars more than 95% (not an exaggeration) of Teslas. Completely different markets (and size of market).
Now of course tesla/musk are destroying themselves through various idiotic actions. Sales are dropping through the roof. But the technical quality of the software ecosystem (car, web, app) is still better than all the incumbents. Think about Rivian getting a billion dollars from VW for their much better ECU and and software integration, for example.
I feel like Rivian is almost as good as tesla. Tesla still has all that, even as the company is in awful shape sales wise. Lucid seems to be better than the legacy auto, but I haven't looked into it as closely.