R.S
Active Member
I'm disagreeing with you here. I think they DO need to introduce this car.
Not to make money.
To advance Elon's dream of sustainable transportation.
Yes, I would like a cheaper Roadster 2020. But there is already that car-- a 2008 or 2010 Roadster.
I really don't want to go there, but is a 200 kWh two seat sports car even sustainable?
I'm a car fan, so I am not one of those people who would have us driving around in autonomous shared EVs, but that's the sustaibable vision, right? Making the most of the resources and therefore reducing our impact on our environment. A toy like the roadster is wasteful by definition.
Now I don't think they should therefore not build it, others might disagree, but I like cars and therefore I really love this Roadster. But it doesn't fit a sustainable vision of the world, nor did it really change any meaningful part of the automotive industry.
Sure Ferrari might have to go EV, but Ferraris aren't daily driven and it will take quite some time to amortize the massive battery, if the car isn't really driven that much. On the list of automotive segments that need to move to electric drive trains because of the environment, the segment of 200k+ supercars is second to last, only surpassed in irrelevance by the million dollar plus supercars.
Other than that, it's a technological marvel and as a person who likes fast cars and electric vehicles it's my dream car. But it isn't a really meaningful car. In 20 years people will remember the original Roadster, the Model S, the Model 3, all of them as cars that were important steps towards the transition from fossil fuel based transportation to electric transportation. There might also be others in that list, like the Leaf, or the Tesla Semi, or some other future EV, but surely not this Roadster.