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Tesla is a battery company that baits you in with flashy cars.

• cma 6y ago
  That's the new story from "Battery Investor Day" after they failed to deliver on the big promises of "Autonomy Investor Day." Now they say autonomy isn't important and everyone else will get it within a couple years of Tesla anyway (meanwhile others are ahead). Before they said it would make each car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and increase their margins like never before.
  • kneel 6y ago
    That's not a new take. That's what they've been doing all along. Surprising to find Tesla FUD after all their successes.
    • cma 6y ago
      All along they have been making up the next big thing (like solar shingles) and downplaying the former?
• dzhiurgis 6y ago
  I'd say they are just a tech company that happens to make cars. No matter how they position their battery advantages everyone can easily copy them. They don't have magic chemistry. Plus batteries are so cheap already it doesn't matter anymore. Every other car company has an EV, some with similar battery sizes. But no-one has infotainment and gizmos like Tesla has. This is where Tesla's premium kicks in (asides from packing bigger batteries for no particularly good reason). I'm looking for an EV for my parents in Europe and Tesla is basically 1.8x more for quite much better range and way better tech, but questionable build quality. Basically non-starter for now.