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For one, they have spent years shedding all their talent and outsourcing all their components. Now they are the mercy of their vendors, with limited knowledge
by bearjaws 2y ago
For one, they have spent years shedding all their talent and outsourcing all their components.
Now they are the mercy of their vendors, with limited knowledge of how to do things any other way than to keep depending on them.
Sometimes there are only 1 or 2 vendors they can pick from, with so little competition, it is no wonder the prices keep going up.
If Tesla actually focused on making a cheap car, I am sure it would cost far less, but instead they need the Model 3 to be a cash cow to make up for all the other dumb decisions being made.
- numpad0 2y agoMaybe, but base Nissan Leaf is $28k off the lot today with L2 self driving. Sure, air cooled battery, CHAdeMO, hatchback design... but it's not like those deficiencies would cost full $15k/car to fix; it's not like Big CHAdeMO is burning that much per each Leaf. So that kind of "Tesla would have this and that" arguments don't really hold water.
- lowbloodsugar 2y agoThat said, my model 3 performance is faster than any car under $100k and costs less than half that. So it’s actually cheap for what it is. Comfier too.
- bearjaws 2y agoI love my 2018 M3 but can't bring myself to buy the new one due to lacking USS and no blinker stalk - absolutely baffling.
- lowbloodsugar 2y agoThe blinker stalk you just get over. Found myself pressing the nonexistent button on my ford truck the other day. The lack of USS was a concern for me too. I test drove a 2022 with USS and had heard a lot about how the ones without were “bad”. Compared to my wife’s car that has USS, my 2024 is vastly superior. The cameras do build a working 2D top-down view of obstacles when parking and of course the cameras let my brain do so too. In short, the 2024 has as good if not better parking than the 2022 I drove, and the performance is even better.