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Porsche has hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D poured into the 919 hybrid Le Mans Prototype, which I imagine will translate to the Mission E. Tesla has no s
by Devthrowaway80 9y ago
Porsche has hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D poured into the 919 hybrid Le Mans Prototype, which I imagine will translate to the Mission E. Tesla has no such experience.
- jacobush 9y agoyet.
- Devthrowaway80 9y agoI await Tesla's foray into serious racing with bated breath. I'm sure Porsche and Audi are terrified. If they gave a shit about developing actual performance EVs, I'd expect them to be in Formula E, but they're not. BMW, Audi, Mercedes and Porsche are.
- u02sgb 9y agoPerhaps they're focusing on other things? Motorsport has always been about advertising, maybe they don't see an advantage in that at this time.
- agumonkey 9y agoYeah, it could drive more people to want to purchase Tesla cars but since they have production bottlenecks it's not the best of times to do so.
- paganel 9y agoToo bad almost no-one watches the E series, because they're boring af (and the whiny sounds are cringy). Porsche did the translation to Mission E because its parent company is called VW, i.e. a company that should have paid damages worth tens of billions of euros because its diesel engines have killed and worsened the health of tens of thousands of people all over Europe, but because VW is a German "national treasure" nothing of that really happened.