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Tesla has at least partly solved some of those, no? - Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone
by iainmerrick 5y ago
Tesla has at least partly solved some of those, no?
- Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone’s needs, but it’s not nothing and helped get the ball rolling.
- Battery tech: has been gradually improving, range is now in the hundreds of miles which is enough for many uses.
- Too expensive / everybody wants an SUV: starting with luxury and sports models and gradually following up with mass-market models addresses both of these.
So I think the analogous questions for Boom are good and valid questions. Tesla had decent answers and Boom should too.
- corndoge 5y agoThat was gp's point I think, that Tesla was panned at first and solved their challenges, no reason to dismiss Boom.
- nacs 5y agoThat's the point OP is making -- that people early on will be nay-sayers (like in the 2005 post) that then turns out to be false.
- iainmerrick 5y agoAh, I see, thanks! I still think the questions are perfectly reasonable. But maybe it just needs to be phrased as “how do they plan to address these?” rather than “which ones have they solved?”
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> that then turns out to be false. That then turned out to become increasingly false over time. Buying the early stage product is a risky bet, you hope it will take off like that, but it might not. They do need a plan to address them, and to be trustworthy.