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You act like Elon spends all his time on build a rocket car. The overwhelming focus at Tesla, is lowering the cost of the car, specifically the batteries. The a
by nickik 6y ago
You act like Elon spends all his time on build a rocket car. The overwhelming focus at Tesla, is lowering the cost of the car, specifically the batteries. The amount of time and engineering going into that is 10000x higher then goes into Roadster. He literally called the Roadster dessert, the only reason they are making is to show that an EV is better in every possible way then a Gas car. And the SpaceX package they probably only doing because Elon want to build the most insane car in the history of humanity (and probably drive it himself).
> I don't need a car or a truck that can go 0 to 60 in 2 seconds. I want safe car with a reasonable range that doesn't cost $100K.
That's the whole point behind battery work they are doing, to be able to make a car the price of a Honda Civic that can everything a modern car should do, including drive itself in many situations and enough range to drive it whereever you like.
It seems like you are massively underestimating how difficult it is to produce millions of EV. The whole global battery industry right can only support a few million cars a year.