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by anovikov 1257 days ago
With EVs that won't be a problem - they are absurdly cheap to maintain. With Tesla, things are a lot simpler. Original buyers were the people who were excited to own an EV. Now that EVs has gone mainstream, that segment is gone, and people became more attentive to details of the cars they buy. And, Tesla's interiors suck. Model 3 looks like a dirt cheap Chinese car, Model S like a mid-range European family car. Exterior is cool, but inside it feels like a car 3x it's cheaper. I can imagine it becoming a major impediment in sales now as the "early adopters" market is fulfilled.

Then again, maybe it's OK in U.S. where most of the cars are crappy on the inside - my ex had an American BMW X5 and it felt like cheap crap too, quite unlike it's European cousin. But it won't fly here in Europe.