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by cosmodisk 1715 days ago
But will they? All major car manufacturers bringing in more and more EVs each year and give another 2-5 years and it's all we are going to see. Now why on earth would I buy Tesla, if I could buy Audi or Merc instead?
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VW expects 50% of cars sold to be electric by 2030, Ford expects 40% to be electric by 2030 and they say that they can't go much faster. Other's manufacturers forecasts are more dire. I'm afraid that it could be too little too late.
I think the roadmap to 2030 is fine: the infrastructure will take time to build and only the richest countries will be able to run majority of EVs on roads by then, unless they become super cheap. Even in the US, it will take ages for EVs to overtake CE because an average person can't afford EVs and will continue to drive their petrol cars for some years.
You could have gotten a BlackBerry or Nokia phone as well but people moved on to Android and iPhone. Tesla is too far ahead.
Batteries is the bottleneck for entirety of next decade. All other manufacturers make like 5k a quarter which means they are loosing money on them…