On: Electric cars make up 54% of cars sold in Norway in 2020

[CharlesW]

Wow, amazing to see Tesla trending down to under 1%. That seems to be evidence that their first-mover advantage won't help them as EVs become common.

[gamblor956 → CharlesW]

Yeah, sacrificing QC for scaling is biting them in the ass in a big way.

There are plenty of people who have heard horror stories about Tesla and are now won't consider buying one. All of the small buy annoying defects were acceptable to the first-mover crowd, but they're an extremely small segment of the market. Once you go mass market, people care a great deal about the quality of something they're spending $30k+ on and which may be their only vehicle.

[albertgoeswoof → CharlesW]

Tesla’s are great and all but American cars don’t exactly have a good reputation in Europe

[clajiness → albertgoeswoof]

American cars don't have a good reputation with a lot of Americans. They're generally cheap vehicles with poor build quality.

[decafninja → clajiness]

I would not lump Teslas with the rest of "American cars". Quite a few people that wouldn't touch a Ford/Chrysler/GM vehicle seem eager to give Tesla a chance.

[BucketsMcG → CharlesW]

What's more likely to happen first: Tesla catches up on a century's knowledge and experience of car manufacturing, or the combined resources of the entire car industry catches up on a decade or so of technological advantage in batteries?

[lazyjones → BucketsMcG]

The former. Manufacturing cars is not arcane knowledge, Tesla is hiring former Daimler employees in Germany as we speak.

Also, Tesla's quality problems are wildly exaggerated to distract from their lead in battery and software technology. Look at VW's ineptitude at fixing ID.3 software...