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To say Audi & Jaguar are on track to soundly beat Tesla is pretty presumptuous. Tesla has a cost and experience advantage on batteries and electric powertrains
by mjamesaustin 8y ago
To say Audi & Jaguar are on track to soundly beat Tesla is pretty presumptuous.
Tesla has a cost and experience advantage on batteries and electric powertrains. It becomes clear when you compare the stats of these competitors and realize they require 90kwh and 95kwh batteries to achieve the same range as a 75 kwh Model X.
That's not to mention the elephant in the room, which is fast charging. Tesla's supercharger network is leaps and bounds ahead of anyone else.
I'm hopeful Tesla will face some good competition from traditional automakers, but it's silly to act as if they've already been beat.
- kllrnohj 8y agoYes, but it's very critical to remember that Tesla only has that electric powertrain. The rest of the car is pretty much a joke. The build quality of the $100k P100D Model S is worse than what you'd find on a $20k Civic. The interior is poor. Words like "minimalist" are often used to try and make it sound nicer than it is - it's cheap, low quality, and missing loads of features for its price bracket. General quality control is poor. The Model S has a currently unique powertrain, but that's basically the only thing it has. Do you really think that can continue to be sufficient to move vehicles when competitors have a powertrain that's 80% the same as Tesla's, but an interior & build quality that's 10x Tesla's?