Instead, it’s more likely that making super expensive, low-volume cars out of carbon fibre without offering performance or range advantages over mainstream EVs and PHEVs isn’t a compelling business case.
From a Market Emergence POV, the reason the big guys are holding back a bit is because they recognize that we’re at the Moment of Truth for The Early Adopters... there’s a good case to be made that EV’s sold to this point are primarily “Early Adoption” buys. Several things indicate this:
Right. A Rav 4 with a 900kg payload and more ground clearance, better departure and not far off approach angles and far superior wading that basically most 4x4s on the market. Don’t tell me it’s not a competitor, because it is. Oh, it’s not body on frame, which totally makes it completely useless off-road. I mean no…
That’s the most original thing I’ve ever heard.
Shows picture of 10 year old Land Rover DC100 concept car.
Just another case of the Germans screwing over the Japanese really. Most of their partnerships end in disaster.
Foreal! I didn’t even see who wrote this article before I started reading it but I instantly knew it was one of yours because of the writing style and photography!
I love that the first picture is 1/2 sky.
Allowed? Sure, go ahead, why not?
about $15000 ago I figure.
Wait, another tech company that sells premium priced products has realized that making cars is realllllly hard and abandoned the EV market? Designing them is hard. Building a prototype is hard. Testing them is harder. Manufacturing them, however is many times more difficult than the first 3.
Counterpoint. So pretty.
Never change $kaycog.
Saddest part about rolling that car is putting those hideous wheels at eye level.
So I should move to Canada and open a company that buys Airbuses and sells them to US carriers at a 1% markup? That is about $1mil per plane :)
That was exactly what I thought, too. I’m guessing there are a couple of old-money British patriots on the buyer list that will spec theirs more tastefully, but you’ll never see them except maybe in the paddock at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The Free World would defeat China the same way they defeated the Soviet Union: with Levi jeans and rock and roll.