It is a mostly a fair article except for one sentence.
It says the BMW 5 Series is competitor to the Tesla Model S.
Which is true. For every car out there. It implies the 5 Series is a direct competitor to the Model S. It is not. Model S is bigger with much more usable interior volume because there is no transmission tunnel. And a TOL Model S will smoke a TOL 5 Series or 6 Series to 60 and 1/4 mile. And is cheaper to fuel to boot.
The BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe is a Model S direct competitor. It starts at $78k to the Model S’s $71k.
I drive my Model S every workday. And a lot of weekends. I have driven it from Los Angeles to Vancouver without spending a single dime on fuel using only Tesla’s Supercharger Network.
The legacy OEM’s don’t want to cannibalize their own high margin products so they market wierd looking crippled electric cars.
With Tesla’s new battery Gigafactory they will reduce battery cost by 30% in 2017 and 50% in 2020. At this point it will be cheaper for Tesla to build an electric powertrain than for the legacy OEM’s to build an equivalent ICE powertrain.
That is why Tesla will eat their lunch in the not too distant future.
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Tesla will be out of business when the realities of battery cost and lack of reliability have been affirmed by their new battery “factories.”
The real world of Lithium is on the verge of crashing through the scam barrier.
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What’s the recharge time?