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So let's say Tesla will be making 3K cars a day a year from now, or 10% of VWs output (I haven't checked the numbers, just trusting the parents's post). That w

So let's say Tesla will be making 3K cars a day a year from now, or 10% of VWs output (I haven't checked the numbers, just trusting the parents's post). That would leave some, but not much time for VW to get their house in order before they face a serious challenge. But that assumes that Tesla's and VWs markets are the same, whereas I believe VW also has much lower-priced market segments than Tesla.

DarmokJalad1701 7y ago
If VW wants to make 30k+ EVs per day, they would also have to figure out how to make batteries for all those cars. Right now, Tesla's GF1 and 3 have that locked down with a significant head-start in time as well as tech. They started in 2013 because they foresaw that 500k cars per year would use up the entire world's battery production. They also acquired Maxwell tech to further stream line their cell production with denser and easier-to-manufacture cell chemistry. All of that will be big hurdles for other OEMs to overcome (and that is IF they dedicate resources to it without half-assing it for compliance purposes).