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The "fast-followers" in the electric car business trying to play catch-up with Tesla are mostly existing fuel car companies, and they have a lot of assets in th

by qq66 12y ago

The "fast-followers" in the electric car business trying to play catch-up with Tesla are mostly existing fuel car companies, and they have a lot of assets in their favor: huge teams of experienced car designers, manufacturing and distribution facilities, dealerships, etc. It will be interesting to see whether Apple has sufficient resources (not just financial, but people/cultural) to get a home run or even base hit as a fast-follower. One thing is certain, consumers should certainly benefit from all this competition.

fit2rule 12y ago
>> huge Also a liability.
PinguTS 12y ago
Which fuel car company do you think is a "fast-follower". Daimler is prototyping electric cars since the 1990. Some based on battery and others based on fuel cells, which is basically hydrogen. The original A-series was supposed to be all electric, but just before going public those plans where canceled. BMW has an heritage on electric cars into the 1980. Renault sold mid 1990 small sized electric cars. Remember, the electric hype started with the Prius at about a time when Toyota was about the cancel the Prius. They did not, because it happened that oil became very expansive and so many US Hollywood stars and following many US citizens bought one. With that the idea of the electric car was "born".
- socialist_coder 12y ago
  All those 100% electric efforts were basically complete failures. Tesla showed them all that it is possible (and profitable) to manufacture electric cars. Without Tesla leading the way, do you really think any of those fuel car companies would have given electric cars another try?
  - PinguTS 12y ago
    Nope. All they worked, but none had a sustainable, payable battery solution. Just to remember you, the car companies develop their cars to work in Alaska as well as in Mohave under almost any circumstances. That is something Tesla does not really delivers. Because Tesla does not really sell to the Average Joe. Tesla sells to the Tech Bubble, to people who are interested in Tech. Originally, Tesla sells a car with a price tag of a BMW 5series, Mercedes E-class, Toyota/Lexus and alike but does not deliver the same interior experience neither the same comfort features in terms of driving experiences. The later one just added because of the cooperation with Daimler. Btw: I don't see a huge 17" touch screen with an UI of a early 2000 website feeling as an interior experience. And in cockpit design the 17" does not fit at all. A smaller one may would have benefited the cockpit design much more.

by qq66 12y ago

fit2rule 12y ago

>> huge Also a liability.

PinguTS 12y ago

Which fuel car company do you think is a "fast-follower". Daimler is prototyping electric cars since the 1990. Some based on battery and others based on fuel cells, which is basically hydrogen. The original A-series was supposed to be all electric, but just before going public those plans where canceled. BMW has an heritage on electric cars into the 1980. Renault sold mid 1990 small sized electric cars. Remember, the electric hype started with the Prius at about a time when Toyota was about the cancel the Prius. They did not, because it happened that oil became very expansive and so many US Hollywood stars and following many US citizens bought one. With that the idea of the electric car was "born".

socialist_coder 12y ago
All those 100% electric efforts were basically complete failures. Tesla showed them all that it is possible (and profitable) to manufacture electric cars. Without Tesla leading the way, do you really think any of those fuel car companies would have given electric cars another try?
- PinguTS 12y ago
  Nope. All they worked, but none had a sustainable, payable battery solution. Just to remember you, the car companies develop their cars to work in Alaska as well as in Mohave under almost any circumstances. That is something Tesla does not really delivers. Because Tesla does not really sell to the Average Joe. Tesla sells to the Tech Bubble, to people who are interested in Tech. Originally, Tesla sells a car with a price tag of a BMW 5series, Mercedes E-class, Toyota/Lexus and alike but does not deliver the same interior experience neither the same comfort features in terms of driving experiences. The later one just added because of the cooperation with Daimler. Btw: I don't see a huge 17" touch screen with an UI of a early 2000 website feeling as an interior experience. And in cockpit design the 17" does not fit at all. A smaller one may would have benefited the cockpit design much more.