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Do you pay attention to other cars besides tesla? What Tesla killers have failed? > Last I heard they got the price down to $45K, so they are in striking dist
by anth_anm 8y ago
Do you pay attention to other cars besides tesla?
What Tesla killers have failed?
> Last I heard they got the price down to $45K, so they are in striking distance of the $35K target and won't stop there
Are they? That's a 20% price drop still to go.
- travisoneill1 8y agoI don't pay attention to any cars at all (other than my ancient Ford Ranger), but I still hear about Tesla. Advantage Tesla. All of them. Tesla is still eating everybody's lunch in the EV space, right? Tesla is the first company to mass manufacture EV's. At this stage of tech / economy of scale a 20% price drop is trivial.
- anth_anm 8y agoI'd put the Jaguar I-Pace as more of a Tesla killer than pretty much anything else that has come out. Even then, you don't see a Jaguar that often. If BMW comes out with a luxury sedan electric car that would be a tesla killer.
- travisoneill1 8y agoI guess we'll see. Model 3 seems to be moving towards the Toyota Camry market and away from the BMW market, though. I think there is room for both, and hopefully many more too. EV's are at the early stage where new entrants will be cannibalizing gas car sales more than each others.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y ago> If BMW comes out with a luxury sedan electric car that would be a tesla killer. Instead they produced the i3 which is ugly as sin, has only 180 mile range even WITH the gas-powered range extender, and underwhelming performance, and the i8 which is an overpriced plug-in hybrid with only 15 miles of electric range.
- rasz 8y ago>What Tesla killers have failed? Fisker, Aptera, Lucid, Faraday Future Edit: Forgot supposed Apple car :)