2022 Mercedes-Benz EQB Starts at $10K Less Than a Tesla Model Y
Soon, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla will both have small, three-row electric SUVs on the market. Only one will be way, way cheaper.
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The market for EVs is so big thus, there are not enough supplies for both Tesla and Mercedes to satisfy the demand.
When was the last time you extensively drove a CCS car? (DCFC is all fast charging formats, Tesla Supercharger, CCS, CHAdeMO)SHOULD TESLA BE WORRIED??
Not until the charging infrastructure for DCFC EVs is up to the standard that Tesla has set.
Rich
Oh they know it, but the $$$ they're getting tells them to ignore it.Trivia - There are only 53 Hydrogen Fuel Cell refueling sites in North America, and all but one are in California.
California is the only state that doesn't realize that FCEV's are a failed technology that has a larger CO2 footprint than a CNG car (hydrogen is cracked from natural gas).
SHOULD TESLA BE WORRIED??
Not until the charging infrastructure for DCFC EVs is up to the standard that Tesla has set.
Rich
I agree with you in principle, but charging parity with the Supersharger network is quickly becoming the case; if it isn’t there already for Interstate driving over most of the US, it will be soon. I would offer a different reason why Tesla in the short-term has little worry about the EQB: there aren’t any. And there won’t be more than a handful of them by year end. Same situation with the Ioniq5, same for the Genesis GV60/GV70, and so on. All viable competitors, just no significant (or any) availability.
When was the last time you extensively drove a CCS car? (DCFC is all fast charging formats, Tesla Supercharger, CCS, CHAdeMO)
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The starting msrp might be 10k less but when u add the options to build a model comparable to the features in the model y(lane keep, adaptive cruise, all around parking sensors etc) the price is >10k higher than the Tesla.2022 Mercedes-Benz EQB Starts at $10K Less Than a Tesla Model Y
Soon, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla will both have small, three-row electric SUVs on the market. Only one will be way, way cheaper.www.thedrive.com
There the $350 Korean CCS -> Tesla adapter available that works if your car has CCS compatibility. My 2022 X has CCS compatibility logic. But I would prefer to buy a Tesla branded and warrantied version of the adapter (even if they rebrand the adapter from the Korean company).When was the last time you extensively drove a CCS car? (DCFC is all fast charging formats, Tesla Supercharger, CCS, CHAdeMO)
2018 - Was not possible to go interstate on all routes, all CCS /CHAdeMO is under 100kW.
2019 - First >100kW CCS is deployed, it becomes possible to travel coast to coast by CCS.
2020 - Number of CCS sites achieves parity with Supercharger sites. First Electrify America sites start popping up with 350 kW capability.
2021 - Most interstate routes have CCS support. # of CCS and CHAdeMO sites surpass SC sites.
2022 - There are 5,569 CCS sites, 5,419 CHAdeMO sites, and 1,525 Tesla sites. This is why Tesla needs to produce a CCS<>SC adapter set.
So nothing recent. And nothing with a long range.2019. Chevy Bolt Premier. Two trips:
Cape Cod to north/west MA for leaf peeping (around 500 miles), and, Cape Cod to just south of Tucson AZ (2800 miles).
I wrote about the long road trip in my book, Electric Vehicles, What About Them?!?
It was six days on the road. The EA network failed us on three of those days (almost stranded on two of those days!). I'm sure it's better now. Will find out starting Saturday (6/4) as I'll be driving our Tesla Y to Cape Cod from AZ (did a round-trip last year in the Tesla. Piece of cake.) using a CCS adapter when possible. Just to try out the EA system.
Rich
2022 Mercedes-Benz EQB Starts at $10K Less Than a Tesla Model Y
Soon, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla will both have small, three-row electric SUVs on the market. Only one will be way, way cheaper.www.thedrive.com