You are technically correct, but that’s not the perception that people have.

Truck buyers are probably the consumer group least interested in switching to EVs, let alone at a 20k+ price premium.

i wouldnt say significantly larger.

I love the Rivian. I have a reservation for an R1S.

A model 3 competes against the Toyota Camry and Prius. It’s in no way competitively priced.

it might have more reservations than either of those. noone knows. fanboys made up a thing that says 2 million. tesla themselves have said they dont even know.

Not to mention GM and Ford are both finding out the hard way that “look at all these reservations for an EV pickup we have!” isn’t remotely correlated to real demand once the vehicle is actually on sale. It cannot possible go better for this thing.

That was the story from a company that compiles data on dealerships (aka, not Tesla, which accounts for 60% of EV sales in the US).

I’ve owned 3 i3s because they worked great for us. We even did long trips in them. Even trips that the were effectively impossible in the Bolt because of the infrastructure at the time.

Soon it will be available in camouflage, I bet.

But the US government should be promoting an open standard and not help one company get a monopoly.

THIS is [Tesla’s] killer app and why they should be valued as high as they are. Not their cars, not Musk, and not AutoPilot.

Yeah, the Bolt has a lot going for it from a range and pricing standpoint and maintenance cost standpoint.

And yet, it blows the poorly executed BMW i3 out of the water in every way, except brand cachet, which apparently is important to a few of you.

Bolts got discontinued because they were catching on fire lol

This isn’t about all EVs. It’s about non-competitive EVs piling up at dealers.

Is Rivian actually delivering the dual motor (instead of the original quad motor) R1S, yet? I haven’t seen that. But I agree with you that it’s competitive, for sure.

Is there a plan to phase ICE out by 2030?

In C/D’s testing, it looks like Tesla essentially checks how full the battery is, multiplies that by the total EPA-estimated range, and spits out a number.

I think a PHEV F-150 is a good idea in theory. A 60-mile battery in an F-150 is still a big battery, though. About 20 TIMES bigger than the one in the Powerboost, right now. Plus, you’re still buying the whole Ecoboost engine and transmission and whatever. Execution might be tougher than theory. I’m not sure.