That's why the 4 hour requirement. I don't know anyone who wants to drive more than a tank of gas without food. No, not true, I know people who travel on energy bars and coke/coffee. Not me, I want a real meal with no rush. An hour is good.
For the vast majority of the world, an hour to "fill up" is distinctly
not good.
And to reiterate: the market has spoken.
What market. There's virtually no choices.
Almost every manufacturer offers at least one EV today. Most offer multiple EVs now. You can go out and buy EVs from almost anyone. Yet consumers overwhelmingly choose Tesla. Now why do you think that is?
Why?
What about their EV attempts thusfar has given you cause to think that they have any knack whatsoever at bringing their EVs' production costs relative to their stats? If anything, they're only falling further behind.
Because they haven't actually attempted to provide anything to the market.
Except that they literally have. Over and over. We've been hearing about the imminent "Tesla killers" coming out, dozens of them, over and over for the past decade. And when each one comes out, what does it turn out to be?
But oh no,
next time, they'll surely mean it!
Their attempts so far are only bad because they
don't care, that's surely why
Forget that they've been spending spending billions of dollars to make these flops.
Look at their efficiencies compared to Tesla. Ranges compared to Tesla. Charge times compared to Tesla. Performance compared to Tesla. Margins compared to Tesla. After billions of dollars of investment,
this is all they have to show. It's not some sort of "lack of trying"; they
literally cannot keep up.
Just like when GM built the EV1 and ended up crushing them all. They made them for their own reasons
They did not "make them for their own reasons"; they made them because CARB forced them to.
Several of them have said they will have multiple models out in 2022 which in aggregate will be more than what Tesla has
Selling a few hundred thousand cars is not dominating the market
It
very much is dominating the EV market.
It doesn't matter how much capacity you have on-hand for making ICE engines and transmissions when the topic is the EV market. Wherein the issue at hand
is how much battery capacity you have, drive unit capacity, your powertrain efficiency, your battery tech, etc etc.