Yeah, and what do they come with? Antiquated most-everything and generic styling?

Chevrolet SS, 0-60 time: 4.6s. MSRP: 47k.

I don’t even know BMW’s lineup anymore but the BMW 335i was very similarly priced, while being a better car overall. It was down ~100hp, but had about the same 0-60. Audi S4, same thing. Faster…

Weight is actually not that big of an issue. At higher speeds, drag is a much bigger problem, and having a lower cd makes a much bigger difference than weight in energy usage.

Model S and Roadsters are small potatoes in the scheme of things, but even if BMW makes something slathered in Carbon Fiber, they’re not going…

How overpriced was it? Very.

I don’t think any automaker is likely to make a “Tesla Killer.”

BMW isn’t an electric-only/electric-first car brand. As such, Tesla will have the brand cachet as the “hip, cool, new technology” electric automaker. Chevy could slash a few thousand off of the Bolt (and maybe they will), and it still won’t be a “Tesla…

So.. what’s going to happen is the “Snapchat white girl” crowd is going to be rocking these, and be too busy on their phone to look in their blind spots—that they can’t see anyways. I predict lots of people getting cut off.

Sorry, but I don’t think you’re correct. Despite this not being Tesla’s goal (building EVs—but rather batteries).

Tesla has too much brand cachet for that to happen. It’s the same reason that GM cannot sell large amounts of Cadillacs and Buicks (and now likely Bolts.) The vehicles themselves are (generally) good…

5th Gear: What a surprise! A company with plants in Mexico is worried they’ll (or their purchasers) will have to pay more money!

Looks to me like they’re finding out it’s hard to simply recreate everything MobileEye had done and thoroughly worked on for years.

Gonna need a lot more than that to make me want to have a 200-let alone for 7 years. I’ve done plenty of sinning, but I’m not yet ready for hell.

“The folks at Lamborghini told me ... before the window automatically rolls up a fraction of an inch to make a seal with the roof.”

Just fyi, this isn’t new. My 2012 Audi TT/RS does this.

Right, but that’s the direct answer to your entire question?

Why would they try to solve this problem in that way when there are much more practical and cost efficient approaches to such a problem?

basic operations.. You mean like building a worldwide supercharger network, retail stores, a gigafactory, expanding tooling to make more than 5x the vehicles they’re making now, and R&D into future technology such as autonomous driving?

I’m saying the second one is ugly.

The split window looks like a Jensen Interceptor, and gets an ObamaNotBad.jpg from me.

No?! It looks like a Jensen Interceptor!

The second one is the “ehhhh” one.

The front end reminds me of a Ford Edsel.. guess I’m the only one.

I’m expecting to come out at around the time of Half Life 3 at this point.

You are insane. The second gen was far the best looker. Woof.

If you’re going camping and it’s several hundred miles, or even a thousand miles away, either: Recharge at a supercharger 2-4 times, or rent a gasoline powered car for the trip. Far cheaper, and less complexity to maintain.

If you literally drive hundreds/thousands of miles/cross country every week, don’t buy an…

You mean like Amazon, right?

Do you really think ANY company scaling from producing 80k vehicles a year to 580k vehicles is going to be profitable during that time?

This is just ridiculous.

Think about this sensibly: There are so many better options here.

Do you road trip far often? If yes, you’re not a good candidate for an electric car. That might be 10% of the population.

Do you road trip seldom? If yes, either recharge at the superchargers, or simply rent a gas vehicle for the…