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The iPace from Jaguar is a really good start however it still suffers from: 1) Dealerships: they still hate selling EVs. (My personal experience - my GM deale
by cowmix 8y ago
The iPace from Jaguar is a really good start however it still suffers from:
1) Dealerships: they still hate selling EVs. (My personal experience - my GM dealer spent hours trying to convince me to not by my Volt).
2) Charging: Tesla has the only serious world-wide charging network.
3) Software: Telsa (for good or bad) updates their software all the time. People get 'goodies' every few months. My Volt, only a handful of VERY minor software updates in five years. People are coming to expect that.
- _ph_ 8y agoAnd the biggest problem: Jaguar plans to make only 20k cars in the first production year. I hope they have plans to increase production considerably, or it will be another token electric car.
- gizmo 8y agoThat's funny, because last year Tesla produced only 3000 or so Model 3s.
- hackerman12345 8y agoAnd in the first quarter of 2018 they produced: Model S: 11,730 Model X: 10,070 Model 3: 8,180
- gizmo 8y agoThe argument was that Jaguar wasn't serious because they're only making 20k of their electric car in the first year of production. I pointed out that Tesla hasn't produced 20k of any of their cars during the first year of production. That's noteworthy hypocrisy. We know that established car manufacturers can ramp up quickly if they want to. Can Tesla? So far, the evidence indicates they cannot.
- paranoidrobot 8y agoTesla also didn't have the decades of experience and existing production lines to work on. >We know that established car manufacturers can ramp up quickly if they want to. The evidence so far indicates that they don't.