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Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago (17 children)

They can't make a good car at triple the price. Why would anyone buy this one?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (11 children)

Personally I was shopping Tesla Model Y vs Chevy Blazer. At a glance, this seems to fall right in with what you’re saying but the reality was very different.

Tesla started off with an advantage by actually being available
even when Blazer was released, as a new model, it had much worse quality issues, very little availability, and huge markups
Tesla was a mature model, with no quality issues
Tesla was much less expensive
Tesla was rated 100 miles more range
Tesla is much more efficient
Tesla has an outstanding charging network
Tesla has a much easier purchasing process, with fewer middlemen to scam profits
Tesla software and automation is on a whole different level

The decision really wasn’t close

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Regarding the sales process: in Tesla's early days, they received an exception to the requirement for needing to use dealerships. Generally this is very shady and is outright unfair towards other car manufacturers—even Rivian didn't get this same special treatment because lawmakers saw how Tesla abused it.

Tesla's growing monopoly on charging networks isn't something to be proud of, in my opinion, and neither is their proprietary charging cable. We need open standards.

Also, Tesla's mileage estimates are notoriously exaggerated. Perhaps technically you can get the claimed range if the entire trip is downhill…

[–] LouSpooner@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I've driven 120k miles on my Tesla, and have a different observation on range and efficiency. Even with sub-optimal winter tires and roof rack rails, I can still attain rated efficiency. It does require appropriate temperatures and speeds though, more sensitive to that than ICE cars in my experience. 80k miles in a Chevy Bolt demonstrated about the same tendencies.

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