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Their cheapest bottom of the barrel model is now 62k CAD in Canada. I don't feel like the recent move to increase the price of their cars by tens of thousands o

• googlryas 4y ago
  The goal was never "sell any given EV for as cheap as possible, with no regard to business sense", but to build a company that could end up mass producing normal consumer level EVs. They could cut the price of their cars if they wanted to, but I'm not sure how that would help them reach a goal of a $25k EV.
  • the_biot 4y ago
    You're now spending your time making excuses for the richest man on earth, insisting he'll do something for the world eventually. Meanwhile he makes luxury cars, getting paid top dollar from both consumers and the government both, and shooting rockets into space, for which he's also getting paid by the government. You think your devotion to the cause of making him ever richer pleases him?
    • googlryas 4y ago
      > You're now spending your time making excuses for the richest man on earth, insisting he'll do something for the world eventually. No, I'm pushing back against false claims and inconsistent logic. > You think your devotion to the cause of making him ever richer pleases him? If you said Hitler had 20 fingers, I would have told you that he only had 10. That doesn't mean I'm devoted to Hitler, it means I'm devoted to the truth regardless of who is trendy to hate on right now.