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Electric is a paradigm shift. What makes you think ICE manufacturers will ever be able to catch Tesla?
by halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
Electric is a paradigm shift. What makes you think ICE manufacturers will ever be able to catch Tesla?
- Aloha 5y agoIs it? Economy of scale would seem to win the day in the end. Building an electric car is not fundamentally different than building an ICE one. Changing the drivetrain does not change the rest of the vehicle that much, other than packaging, and thats pretty easy to figure out, any competent manufacturing engineer can do it.
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y agoWhat makes you think Tesla can resolve all their problems and produce a car everyone wants to buy at the right price point before everyone else has time to implement their responses? There are plenty of drivers like myself that specifically buy reliable vehicles, 2nd hand. Tesla can’t even match the reliability of my current car that cost less than 1/4 of the cheapest new Tesla. The incumbents have plenty of run way. It remains to be seen what happens.
- Syonyk 5y agoTesla's problems aren't the drivetrain. They're "Literally every other bit of the car except the drivetrain." Other OEMs are reasonably good at those bits, and can, at worst, buy a drivetrain from someone good at it - but there's nothing particularly exotic about an electric drivetrain, especially if you've been putting out hybrid drivetrains for a while.
- katbyte 5y agoIt seems like they are already catching up from ford lightning to jaguar to Porsche - https://youtu.be/qYonNKJWAlA https://youtu.be/qYonNKJWAlA Maybe the question is going to become can tesla keep up?
- dastbe 5y agohow many rsus do you have depending on it