Tesla’s problems are not just bad management, but producing a product for which there is very little market. I have two friends who bought electric vehicles and I asked them if they would have bought WITHOUT the subsidy. The answer was heck no in both cases. So their market wasn’t for the vehicle, but for the subsidy. Neither of them have their electric vehicles any more.
Electric vehicles are niche vehicles that have too short a range , take too long to recharge, cost too much (without a subsidy), dont last long enough (dunno about the rest of you but I average keeping a car 12 years), are very expensive to repair (new battery pack), and pollute more than gas vehicles- just pollute in a different location.
“Electric vehicles are niche vehicles that have too short a range , take too long to recharge, cost too much (without a subsidy), dont last long enough (dunno about the rest of you but I average keeping a car 12 years), are very expensive to repair (new battery pack), and pollute more than gas vehicles- just pollute in a different location.”
Well my son leased a Nissan Leaf to use to commute the 100 mile daily round trip from his home to work. He had a solar electricity system installed on his roof, and between the two of them, he pays nothing other than his lease cost to get to work.
Yeah, electric vehicles are niche products, but they are good at what they do.