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Is this because of a lack of competition from other legacy manufacturers, Tesla is being uniquely greedy, or a mix of both?

• gunapologist99 5y ago
  Neither. For technical and historical reasons, Tesla can, and customers do not seem to care... until they do. (Exactly as with Apple products, but Teslas cost an order of magnitude more, so it's possible that Tesla will burn up customer goodwill faster; on the other hand, John Deere farming machines, which can cost a magnitude further at hundreds of thousands of dollars, are still purchased by customers as well, even with the John Deere right-to-repair and computerization issues.) Are these unwise choices that customers are making? It's probably only unwise when something goes wrong. ;) But people have bought many other expensive-to-repair vehicles (and other delicate machinery, like watches) for hundreds of years, so Tesla isn't exactly unique in that respect.