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Side tangent, I love how when Tesla has anything go wrong its all over the news and massively upvoted on Reddit / HN.

Chevy Bolts literally had to be parked outside your home and have battery charge permanently reduced 50%, only 43 upvotes here on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252550



Tesla sells more, does a lot more cutting edge & controversial things, and so in a community of technophiles like HN it's always going to be a bigger flashpoint of discussion. Especially compared to a stodgy 100+ year old company following a trend for which Tesla laid much of the foundation.

Not that I think that's how it should be. For me, even (especially?) from a technophile POV, problems with EV's from a company like Chevy (well, GM) or VW are more interesting. These are the companies that, in the shorter term, will have a much larger impact on mass market EV adoption. They're the ones with the manufacturing, distribution, and service base needed to quickly scale into low & mid market segments that Tesla doesn't much seem to care about. That's what will define how much, or how quickly, these become just another everyday piece of tech.

In 5 years the mobile phone market went from most people buying a feature phone to most buying a smartphone. The screwups made by the big EV manufacturers will define how quickly EVs do the same thing for the automobile market.


Top comment calls out why. Tesla is a luxury brand, not a mid range car. Price differences bring different expectations.


Eh...I own a Model 3 and I would not consider the Model 3 or Model Y (Which is essentially just a slightly larger Model 3 with a hatch) to be luxury cars. It's a nice car, for sure, but I wouldn't call it luxury.


It’s the price point. You can get BMWs for the same price and they’re definitely luxury cars.


The Model 3 is a $25,000 car with a $15,000 battery.


Underlying cost doesn't matter to markets when it's priced the same as luxury cars. It's the same customers with the same disposable income and different expectations than mid-range.




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