4 ms·

"($19,366) a month" Remember when journalism had features such as copy editing?

• deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
• pjc50 9y ago
  "At its launch on Saturday, Nio introduced a battery charging plan with a rental subscription set at 128,000 yuan ($19,366) a month." Oops! It looks like the press release with the decimal in the correct place is here: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3598606 http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3598606 at a more reasonable $194.
  • mattmaroon 9y ago
    That makes a lot more sense. It still seems rather pricey (I have a pickup and it doesn't eat $200/mo worth of gas, as at that price what's the point of an EV?). But a copy editor would have looked at that and thought "you could purchase fractional ownership of a jet for less than the cost to charge that car, so this must be wrong." Excuse me while I go yell at kids to get off my lawn.
    • pjc50 9y ago
      "which provides a RMB 100,000 discount on the purchase price of the ES8" => about $15k, or just over 6 years of ownership. It looks like the original cnbc article is even more wrong about this, describing it as a charging plan when it's just a lease on the battery.