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Ex Jaguar employee here: The I-Pace is a great car however they can't produce enough of them for demand (the waiting list was around 8 months when I left and w
by mothsonasloth 7y ago
Ex Jaguar employee here:
The I-Pace is a great car however they can't produce enough of them for demand (the waiting list was around 8 months when I left and was growing). The tooling in most of the factories is still configured for ICE and they are now repurposing some of the car factories in the midlands to be dedicated to electric vehicles.
EVs are still luxury market focussed, even with my salary I couldn't afford an E-Golf, unless I leased it.
- skellington 7y agoUh no, there is at least a six month supply of i-paces at US dealers now because nobody is buying them. The i-pace is actually quite nice, but terrible efficiency and no charger network makes it a tough sell.
- BrentOzar 7y ago> they can't produce enough of them for demand (the waiting list was around 8 months when I left and was growing) > there is at least a six month supply of i-paces at US dealers now Both of those could have been true at different times: dealers ordered large allocations of them thinking they'd dent Tesla's market, then the ex-Jaguar employee left, and as the i-Paces arrived, they simply didn't sell. That sounds logical with my own experiences with those - the early reviews sounded like Jag had really nailed it, but when I saw my first i-Pace in person, man, no way was I gonna buy one. It's just flat out not attractive, which is a shocker for Jag.
- mikestew 7y agoIt happened to Nissan with the first-gen Leafs. Couldn’t make them fast enough, until the early adopters ran out and Leafs started to pile up on dealer lots.