We need cheaper EVs for people with less money.

So we need economies of scale to bring prices down.

So we need to seed the market in the early years.

I know! Subsidise EVs, even for well-off people, to we get the prices down faster, so the mass market can buy them earlier!

For a few weeks around the end of MArch 29th (the original No-Deal Brexit day), BMW shut down the MINI plants, Honda shut down the Swindon plant, and JLR shut down their four main UK plants.
They found a bunch of non-production work to fill in the time, but they’ve now
run out of these substitute activities, so…

FCA would probably prefer you could buy one with their badges, rather than buying one with Nissan badges.

“Well, Renault do have this...via Nissan”
Have what?

I thought the Rogue was the mildly-tweaked version of the Qashqai? (whereas the X-Trail is a very different model)

Renault have the Zoe - great wee EV, often the best-selling in Europe.
Renault had a portfolio of four electric cars out, pretty much all of them before the Tesla Model S was out.

What is Peugeot doing these days? Making a shedload of money out of the old GM Europe - where GM never managed to.  And they’re doing it…

That second one is definitely an Omni-shambles.

Alternatively, you run the business before incorporating it as a legal person.

The next year, you incorporate it as a legal person. That legal non-natural person becomes liable for taxes.

Your personal tax situation changes.

We’re also at year 16 of Tesla making annual losses.
We’re at year zero of potential and actual investors disbelieving Elon’s stories of jam tomorrow.
Big investors used to be buying shares in Tesla.  Now big investors like T Price Rowe are selling, steadily and consistently.

“And considering that Tesla’s biggest limitation is the ability to mature their production fast enough to keep up with demand” Errr, that was last year’s problem.

Which is why I pointed out it had been withdrawn from the ordering website, and not “from sale”

Yeah, but they’ve been selling Full Self-driving hardware for years and years now.

Renault had more electric models that Tesla for a long while, and still have one of Europe’s best-selling EVs, the Zoe.

I suspect they are one of the companies that least needs to buy Tesla.

So my money is still on BYD or Ford to end up owning the Tesla brand.

It was originally for sale at $35k.
By the time the first $35k cars were about to be delivered, they had withdrawn the $35k model from the ordering website, and were only offering the $39k SR Plus model there.
When did they re-instate the $35k model?

It does make driving a manual quite tricky though!

Structural rutting comes from the vehicle wheel load.

How long before they decide that pavement is liable to potholing and rutting, and invent some sort of extruded steel sections for the vehicles to run on, to ensure the vehicles have a smoother, longer-lasting track to travel on?

Burning firewood is about as bad as 18 diesel cars.
(Even eco designs of woodburning stoves emit huge amounts of particulates)

In the late 20th Century, a vehicle development cycle was generally 6 to 8 years. (It’s now generally 5 to 7 years) .

The Phaeton was put on sale less than a vehicle-development cycle after VW bought Bentley. (i.e. A car that goes on sale in 2002 began development prior to 1998). The show car version of the Phaeton was…

Audi became cool in the first place by developing their Quattro rally car, and winning a shedload of World Rally Championship wins, back in the Group B and just-after-Group-B era