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What a lousy hitjob. Offering loan backup vehicles, a backup gas tank, etc. are not necessarily "shortcomings" or "apologies", they're things to make the vehic
by clicks 13y ago
What a lousy hitjob.
Offering loan backup vehicles, a backup gas tank, etc. are not necessarily "shortcomings" or "apologies", they're things to make the vehicle a little more affordable and a little more practical. They're things that're needed to soften the transition to greater EV adoption.
If these things are apologies, Tesla made a really really big apology by pricing its first vehicle (the Roadster) way, way outside even the moderately rich class's price range.
- w0utert 13y agoYeah, wake me up when Tesla builds an EV that's within a affordable price range for someone like myself, making about twice the median income and still nowhere near being able to buy myself a $70K car (which would be over 70K Euro where I live). As much as I like the Model S for its design and performance, I wouldn't bet on Tesla taking over any meaningful market share from the big manufacturers anytime soon. Tesla built something beautiful, but it's so far out of reach for such a large majority of people, I can't make more of it than a very nice curiosity. I have a better comparison: suppose I had $70K to blow on a new car, the price of the base Tesla S, the least expensive version available, I could by myself a petrol-based car that would be miles ahead of the Tesla S in about every way imaginable except environmental impact.
- bebna 13y agoIf you could live with two, you could split the 70k and buy one of those ev variants of an British sports car and a modern german coupe from one of their fuel saving lines. Which would probably result in a better env. impact then going with the tesla s.