[leobg]

Not sure these are apples to apples comparisons. Model S, 3, X and Y are not only a new platform, but an entirely new category of vehicles, made by a company that has started from zero and has been scaling volume production aggressively. Building a thing well that has been produced in volume for more than a hundred years, by lots of companies, with an entire ecosystem of established suppliers, is quite another story.

[iancmceachern]

They are. My Scion was an entirely new platform as well, I did what you weren't supposed to do, buy one of the first 10k cars produced. It was a totally new drive train, engine, and platform at the time. I would argue that by the time the X came out it was no longer a new class of vehicle, many evs had been out for years prior to thr Xs release.