I have a tax plan to take advantage of the gvw and write off (fully depreciate) the cost of the MX. If I don't take delivery this year, my taxes will be all screwed up and I'll owe an extra 35k.
SA doesn’t know up from down. Price stays the same and everyone gets the new 20’s.
Comletely agree. If there was serious competition in the market they wouldn't have nearly as many orders. Eventually (in 5 years when others catch up) Musk will learn that ignoring customer base is not a good business strategy. People will flock to other brands.
The problem with this, however, is that there aren't that many of us to impact Tesla/Musk in any significant way. We are highly expendable and can be replaced with others quickly - especially as EV acceptance/comfort grows among the millions.
Right but if there were competition than I think that those millions would be buying elsewhere. When others gain equivelancy or even supremacy in certain areas (comfort, fit, finish, etc) this lack of customer service/support will quickly be their downfall in the automotive market.
This is correct. No one has the scale to make EVs to deliver in the next 6 or even 12 months. No one has a supercharger network. No one has Autopilot that works as well as Tesla. Then only company I'd maybe consider is Lucid.
You're delusional to think no one will catch up. Supercruise can do what Autopilot can do on the highway (actually more bc it's fully autonomous).You are right when it comes to local streets. However, most ppl don't need/want autopilot for short trips. There are already cars very close to Tesla with everything but city streets. Others will catch up and when that happens I think Tesla market share will drop exponentially.
I specifically said in the next 5 years or so. To get billions from the US govt Musk has to open supercharging. He won't loose out on that the network will be open within a year likely.
Next 6 to 12 months - true, no one comes close. But, the reference point was in the next 5 years. It should at least be interesting to see this evolution especially as Tesla begins sharing the supercharger network with other EV manufacturers. In the end, many of our gripes are diluted if Tesla elected to give us some direction on timeline rather than pushing out the EDD in our respective accounts to perhaps exceed more than 12 months.
In 5 years I'm thinking that Tesla's lead is 2x 3x bigger, maybe more. No one is moving as fast as Tesla to put up capacity. No one is moving as fast to improve autopilot. Tesla is getting millions of miles of actual real world data to use. That advantage is small at first and then impossible to catch upto. Google has this kind of advantage. The other thing is that Tesla is going to be the brand that people want and will wait for. Look at us, waiting to get a car we're spending massive $$$ on. That's the power of brand, technology and a product that is light years in front of everyone else.
Ford will be making over 80k/yr F150 in 2024. Not a small amount. Ford F-150 Lightning production to double due to high demand, report says I think you forget that other auto manufacturers have already mastered manufacturing which Tesla still has yet to do. Look at their build quality.
Indeed. We'll see if they do what they say they'll do. Mach E is, actually, good. Bolt is, actually, good (when not rapidly oxidizing). But they have zero incentive to push to make more of them other than something something mostly EV by 20 something something *inaudible*
The Japanese caught the US in the early 80's and really have led since then. It can happen
yes it was an arson. I was parked next to the car that was intentionally lit on fire (a Subaru WRX STI) but the damage on my car was enough that Tesla totaled it...
