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Way too cool to deserve the "minivan" title

• noonespecial 15y ago
  I was thinking not useful enough to deserve the "minivan" title. Minivans, like station wagons before them, are the world's schleppers. A big, flat bottomed, flat topped box that you can yank the seats out of and fill with junk... and then bungee more junk to the top. Its a fine first step, but the winner in this space is going to be the company that makes a simple box with batteries, motors and seatbelts that's so simple and so cheap, it will make its IC predecessors look like steam power. I'm betting Hyundai comes out of left field with something and surprises everyone.
  • rythie 15y ago
    Tesla is trying to make a car company not an electric car company. The electric part is just the new bit, every car will have electric in the future. You can clearly see them innovating with the touch screen display, luggage space, performance etc.
  • jstclair 15y ago
    Agreed; the largest advantage of electric car production is the comparative simplicity of the underlying "sled" (can't link directly, but you can see it if you go to http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features#/interior http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features#/interior and scroll down to the section "safety"). After several iterations of that, producing cheap cars will be a no-brainer. I'd also expect rising differentiation between "car companies" and "electric car sled producers".