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Quality still matters. Ask anybody with a Tesla. I think Honda will be fine. Toyota has lots of time as well I think as car buyers have a certain amount of bra
by LeFantome 3y ago
Quality still matters. Ask anybody with a Tesla.
I think Honda will be fine. Toyota has lots of time as well I think as car buyers have a certain amount of brand loyalty.
If it were not for brand loyalty and emotional bias, BYD would probably be storming the world with their inexpensive EV options.
Tesla is in the biggest trouble I think. They have been a luxury brand despite a total lack of luxury. Once everybody catches up on EV range, what do they have? The charging network is the biggest advantage. Perhaps they should pivot to dominating that. Probably harder to avoid regulatory break-up on that front though I suppose.
There is not much battery risk these days though and less all the time. At some point, the problem for car makers is going to be that the batteries last too long.
With mechanical parts, nobody faults you if things start to fail after a decade or two. What will the car market look like when cars start maintaining peak performance for decades?
- lawgimenez 3y agoI feel like Tesla can’t survive in a harsh driving environment like in Asia, based where I’m from.
- DoesntMatter22 3y agoTesla generally has the safest cars too so there is that
- wlesieutre 3y agoModel Y makes the IIHS “Top Safety Pick” list but the 3, X, and S don’t. https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks/2024/ https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks/2024/
- DoesntMatter22 3y agoY,X,3,S all have 5 star nhtsa ratings. They also have excellent ratings in europe.
- l1tany11 3y agoI wonder why they didn’t put cars they didn’t test in the list… strange… They haven’t tested the current generation 3, S, or X.
- bamboozled 3y agoWas my answer too, there is way more to a at than the engine and transmission.
- _aavaa_ 3y ago> If it were not for brand loyalty and emotional bias, BYD would probably be storming the world with their inexpensive EV options. But they are. [0][1] They're hitting large double digit % increase in sales every month and are very quickly catching up to Tesla's sales. Brand loyalty only buys you so much time when the competitors are half the cost. [0]: https://insideevs.com/news/702783/byd-plugin-car-sales-december2023/ https://insideevs.com/news/702783/byd-plugin-car-sales-decem... [1]: https://insideevs.com/news/716305/top-electric-carmakers-sales-2024q1-tesla-vs-byd/ https://insideevs.com/news/716305/top-electric-carmakers-sal...