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Originally Posted by Azure
You said Tesla will sell out and legacy car makers will overtake them.
Even the most delusional analysts who are about as negative as one can be about Tesla don't go that far.
Also, I said they are dead in the water in the context of EV sales. Which they are. Look at the numbers.
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Most major companies don’t sell a ton of EVs because *gasp* the general public is not willing to put up with their shortcomings.
People don’t want a car that takes 45 minutes to refuel.
People don’t want a car that has its operational range shrink by 50% or more when they use the heat in the winter (or the AC in the summer; that one never gets talked about enough).
Hyundai sells two fully electric vehicles at the moment - the Kona and the Ioniq. As second cars, they’re absolutely brilliant. If they’re all you have, you can’t justify spending the premium.
Furthermore, unless you have a house, it’s not clear where a renter is meant to recharge their fancy EV every night.
You can tell me I’m wrong, but I am as hyped on EVs as one can be - they are too limited for a normal person.
EVs have to do the job as well or better as the thing they’re replacing.
They don’t.
Hybrids actually do - hybridizing every passenger car on the road would cut fuel consumption in half. It would improve air quality. It would extend the life cycle of vehicles and reduce maintenance costs.
Oh, and you could still fill it up in 5 minutes.
Fuel cell cars would be awesome. And fuel cells might actually be able to be shrunk down to build power tools. Because we’re not sending men into a mine armed with Black and Decker.
People buy Teslas because they’re sexy and cool and they think Elon is Iron Man come to life. All of which is fine, but a personality cult is not about to supplant some of the largest corporations in the world that already have decades of experience functioning as viable businesses.
Tesla doesn’t. It’s not clear at all that they can.
Doesn’t mean their product isn’t great.