Seems the market is ripe for the taking at this point. Tesla is at total market saturation in the US, and the brand has taken a complete nosedive thanks solely to the actions of one individual. As the target demographic and someone who dreamed of owning one one day, I will never even consider it at this point, and their stock price is reflecting that reality. I'd be calling for blood if I were a shareholder.
> As the target demographic and someone who dreamed of owning one one day
I don't know if it's one of those sunlight = best disinfectant situations where the bloom has fallen off of Tesla's rose as time has gone on, or if it is the rush to gain market share has caused quality to decline, or the original reviews were just shills. However, I too refuse to contribute one cent to the increasing of that one individual's wealth because I find them to be a loathsome individual. Setting that aside, their decisions on being the champion of telematics, OTA updates/modifications without your approval, the increasing use of touch screen controls, and all of the other things that have all just added up to never wanting to own one of these cars. That negativity has not soured my desire for owning an EV, just not a Tesla
Yeah, seconded. Tesla is representative of everything wrong with EV design. Yes, they came in and disrupted everything wrong with ICE design, but they've created a monster. The touchscreens for opening the glove box, the software feature lockout, the lack of repair-ability...I mean cars used to come with a wiring schematic. We need cars buit like the ATX computer standard, something EVs are especially well positioned to do, not built like the IPone.
This entire pursuit of disruption has become just a red flag to me. Are there industries that are desperate for an outside company to come along and change the status quo? Absolutely. However, the SV "disruptors" have soured my view altogether on their willing to just be a bull in the china shop looking to gain notice/investment, yet ultimately not actually providing a good service/product/etc.
> We need cars buit like the ATX computer standard
Isn’t the controller area network an equivalent standard for interop? What’s keeping someone from offering a physical button that signals toggleLatch to the device providing glovebox services on the CAN bus?
CAN bus isn't an interoperable standard, it's closer to lightly structured I2C. It feels like the standards committee might be moving in that direction with the more ethernet style version they're pushing, but I need to sit down and play with it a bit.
While CAN is a standard, it's basically transport layer only. The automakers have all sorts of custom stuff on top of it that's wildly proprietary. Talk to a mechanic and they'll complain about how each car company requires them to buy their own special software suite for diagnosing issues.
Who is that someone? The person that bought the car, got frustrated, and is now looking for 3rd party/after market fixes? That seems like such a wrong solution to me.
Every automotive CEO has been complicit for a hundred years in polluting the environment and killing millions of people with air pollution, millions with substandard safety and excessively large vehicles, and likely billions with global warming in the future, and a mass extinction of species.
Musk busts unions (like every other CEO), gropes women, is a bad ex-husband/father, and tweets right-wing mean tweets. OMG WORST PERSON EVER.
No I'm not giving him sole credit for Tesla/SpaceX/etc, no he is not god messiah of the earthworms.
The touchscreens are out of control, though, that is undeniable.
Tesla should have bought Nissan or some other failing mainline car company and rolled out EV tech with their traditional designs, but... that had to happen a decade ago. No point now.
The whataboutism is dripping so much it's a monsoon. Why is everything a comparison with "you people"? I have many reasons to dislike Musk not exclusive to your sarcasm of a 12 year old. I don't like brussel sprouts, but I don't need to know about your opinions of eating snails, raw fish, or burnt popcorn. It makes no bearing on my dislike nor does it have a bearing on the conversation.
The car Tesla produces is a piece of trash and is unsafe at any speed, and you will not make me like it by telling me "yeah but other cars are worse".
Whataboutism is when someone posits a substantive deep problem and the other side lists a bunch of counterpoints that are shallow and unconvincing. I noticed you offered zero counterpoints to my core argument except that I am apparently a 12 year old.
So in addition to misusing "whataboutism", you simply fell back to ad hominem. Finally, you were the one that went on the intertubes and espoused your view. I did not inject any new subject matter except to counterpoint your pretty myopic viewpoint.
I don't care if your feelings were hurt by simple argumentative debate, the point of my response isn't to attack you, but to offer a different viewpoint to anyone ELSE that reads this. You are correct, it is futile debating people like you.
Teslas have their problems, but they aren't trash. In particular if you look at GM's EV recalls, Porsche's issues with the Taycan, and various EV startups having major issues and scaling problems, Tesla did phenomenally well. The only other companies that did similarly were Chinese and Korean companies that are almost literally parts of their respective governments with unlimited budgets, and armies of near-slave labor in the case of the Chinese.
And it is debatable if any other EV company is actually producing EVs at a sustainable economic profit. Likely the Chinese have turned the corner in the last year or two. Everyone else is still using ICE sales to pour research into their EVs.
Telsa has a market share of 4.2%. It is hardly "total market saturation".
The vehicle market is the relevant metric, not the EV market. At this point they're the same market. Tesla is competing against all cars, not just other EV's.
iPhone has a 25% market share, yet everyone who wants (and can afford) an iPhone has one, i.e saturated. It means either innovation or price drops are required for further growth.
>I'm fairly confident that not everyone who wants an EV has one already.
Right. But everyone who wants (and can afford) a Tesla has one. And that's about 4.2% of the total US market it seems. Sales growth has ceased entirely for them since 2022.
Musk keeps talking about the $25k EV but I have a feeling he's sandbagging it and it will be close to $20k. I say this because Tesla now has all the tech to produce cars in the simplest and cheapest manner with slightly lower quality versions of the bits and pieces that are now going into their premium cars. Ie slightly cheaper versions of the motors, battery packs (smaller but fast charging), interiors, window etc. All in the form of a modern Tercel.
I wonder if anyone has had experience importing a BYD to the US - it looks like you need to get independent certifications to prove that the car is safe if it doesn't conform to US automotive standards. I might need a new car in the next 6 months, so I hope it's cheaper than paying for an EV sold at a dealership here.
Nissan needed a bailout and Renault swooped in and took over and they always grumbled about it.
They had a hand in part of the downfall of former CEO Carlos Gnosh who while not innocent either crossed the line in how company funds were handled for his homes he maintained for travel between France and Japan.
I would not be surprised if they mutually dissolved the partnership.
>I'd very much prefer is Honda didn't team up with Nissan.
To be fair, they are a technological leader in the EV industry. The Leaf was the first purpose built, mass produced EV released in the US, and they have over 15 years of R&D put into it, including their own battery tech. The hatred for Nissan over the past decade has come soley from it's association with FCA, which has no hand in the Japanese EV operations.
What, exactly, has Nissan done with their 15 year R&D lead on EVs exactly? Best I can tell, they sell a car that is largely the same as the original Leaf, but with better range… still the same crap uncooled battery pack with mediocre range vs price and underwhelming specs.
Sure, they just released the Ariya, but that just seems like yet another crossover to compete with Ioniq 5, Mach E, model Y, at a similar price point no less. If they have the technological lead, they’ve surely squandered it.
