Just sold my Ferrari to buy more TSLA

The big 10 are not light years away......behind, yes, but they will catch up.......that is if they actually want to.
My friends near top end Tesla has a range of 320 miles......but that is on a good day. On a cold, wet day, sat in the usual traffic jam with all the washers/wipers, lights, heater/aircon going full pelt, 320 miles is a non-event. The car gets used for the short commute. We do not plan our journeys over here in Europe, based on having to re-charge a battery every 200 miles.........so Tesla for one, has a long way to go yet. Here in the UK there are not enough plug-points to go round.....so problems. It isn't like filling up the tank with gas and driving away. You have to wait in a queue, plug in, wait half an hour....etc etc. You could not sell that to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one recent survey said that many who have tried ''all electric'' for the novelty of it, havn't bought another. That doesn't make a Tesla a long term success,.....and just how much money do you want to loose, just to prove a point.

 

That is the point.... amazon barely makes any money, and never had...... but Tessa have nothing proprietary that the big-10 cannot done tomorrow morning when/if the boring EVs becomes a real market...

 

This is so untrue I cannot even begin to argue it. There is no such thing as a comparable EV to a NA V10 unless you pump in artificial sound. That's just one example. I appreciate your enthusiasm but you don't speak for every gearhead in the world.

 

To say the big 10 is light years behind is ignorant.
Mercedes can crush tesla any time they want they choose not to .
Like that autopilot tesla think is so good , well in europe e class already have it, so do s class here.
U truly think that the best engineer, car maker on earth, which are german can not, with more money than tesla, produce the same thing?
There just isn’t enough for money for them right now.
In europe its really hard to afford a tesla and here in the usa outside california u dont see as many teslas...


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Clearly u are infatuated with tesla and do not appreciate ferrari for what they are thats one point
2-nobody is telling u teslas are not great or not great inventions but everyone is teling u they dont handle like a sports car which u compare them to. U are in denial of that it seems and last everyome checked the roadster was not well received
3- mercedes is in the business of making money, unlike what a previous post svowed of tesla’s figure.
U truly think that a 4 time world champ manufacturer can not make a better hybrid or EV than tesla?

I do agree tesla is disrupting the industry but they are not yet affordable and i can have a friendly bet with you that they better speed up their production bc when mercedes and bmw and co are coming they will not keep up.


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Fyi- credit to eilon for being a visionary but like steve jobs he is nothing without his team


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Actually Teslas Semi doesnt go anywhere right now . MUSK claims it willgo 500 miles between charges but he currently does not have the ability to build the vehicle ..

 

Can't help but wonder why you are on this site.

 

Your opinion of better is not mine. And pushing your opinion as the only valid one makes you sound pompous and egotistical.

 

No doubt!

 

I’m still trying to figure out what is objectively better about Tesla and/or any electric vehicle. What benefit do the owners get other than tax breaks and getting to drive in the HOV? I guess if you are someone who wants the fastest 0-60 time you could make an argument for Tesla. That’s of no interest to me though. I lost interest in that when I stopped being a nerdy teenage boy.

 

Actually, Audiophiles said digital music would be inferior to analog and it is. You will be hard pressed to find an audiophile who thinks digital sounds better except at the very highest (and unaffordable) levels of the technology. And thats 20+ years since its come into play.

Change does happen for a reason, but its not always because something is better. Unless you are going to tell me Walmart is the best shopping experience and McDonalds is the best dining experience. Both of those brought massive change to their industries.

You see change comes most often simply because its cheaper and/or more convenient. Not necessarily because its of higher quality.

Im not anti-Tesla. They seem to make a good product. But to try to argue its 'better' than an ICE vehicle makes you look uneducated on the definition of the word 'better' or worse, unaware of the difference between your opinion and fact. There is no objective standard by which anyone can say Teslas are overall better than ICE vehicles. By some metrics some people will consider a Tesla better than an ICE vehicle. But thats in no way absolute or you wouldnt have people disagreeing with you.

You are probably right on gas powered cars becoming dinosaurs but as McDonalds and Walmart show, that doesnt make the electrics better.

 

And if those metrics are important to you then thats great. Very happy for you. But they arent important to everyone.

Are you unable to be objective on every subject or is it just Teslas ?

 

You do realize that there is nothing that Tesla does that the big automakers could not do if they wanted to. Tesla builds a nice nitch car like many others do ( ferrari for example)
But if there was money in them (tesla proves there is not everyday) the big auto manufacturers could and will build as good or better...

 

No they arent. Your incredulity at those not being important to me (and others) just shows again your inability to see objectively.

Its quite funny actually.

PS (I dont think you know what the word objective means)