Three reboots in 24 months with my M3P, each time due to streaming audio freezing up. Not another single “issue” with the car. I would call this perfect reliability. Stellar. Didn’t have to change tires, nothing. Welllll... I did have (gasp!) to add washer fluid.
Yes, other vehicles at the same price point have made some features all but standard that the 3P doesn’t have. And yeah, if Volvo or BMW or Benz built an SUV with 300-plus miles of range for under $70K you could actually buy within a year, I’d cancel my MYLR order in a heartbeat despite the huge advantage of the Tesla supercharger network.
But here we are, with cars that have the best drivetrains in the world, bar non, mediocre-at-best bodywork and interiors ..... interesting if not perfect software and something of a privileged Bro-ish social stigma to own. Still... on the whole, right now, the package can’t be beat.
But if they don’t figure out some basic things that every other car builder in the world already has -- body panel gaps, quality control before it leaves the factory to prevent much more expensive rework, spotty service, eccentric ordering systems -- then they absolutely will lose ground beginning in about two years when everyone else has cars that are close in performance and better in every other way.
People go on and on about the advantage Tesla has built with being first to market with a real EV. But they’ve picked the low hanging fruit and they and everyone else will start to come up against tech barriers that mean only incremental improvements are possible.
Yes, other vehicles at the same price point have made some features all but standard that the 3P doesn’t have. And yeah, if Volvo or BMW or Benz built an SUV with 300-plus miles of range for under $70K you could actually buy within a year, I’d cancel my MYLR order in a heartbeat despite the huge advantage of the Tesla supercharger network.
But here we are, with cars that have the best drivetrains in the world, bar non, mediocre-at-best bodywork and interiors ..... interesting if not perfect software and something of a privileged Bro-ish social stigma to own. Still... on the whole, right now, the package can’t be beat.
But if they don’t figure out some basic things that every other car builder in the world already has -- body panel gaps, quality control before it leaves the factory to prevent much more expensive rework, spotty service, eccentric ordering systems -- then they absolutely will lose ground beginning in about two years when everyone else has cars that are close in performance and better in every other way.
People go on and on about the advantage Tesla has built with being first to market with a real EV. But they’ve picked the low hanging fruit and they and everyone else will start to come up against tech barriers that mean only incremental improvements are possible.
