Received my invitation today. Haven't been this excited since I brought my Prius plug-in home. I am going to hold off on ordering a couple of months, waiting for the Standard Range car. Without a BEV car, Toyota has lost me as a customer.
Ordered one Jan of 17, haven't heard a word, and you can order one, now, and you are on a Toyota site trashing toyota, and they have been orderable for well over a year, and you were invited to order, a Tesla, wile... Tesla stock is dropping, and Tesla has a cash flow problem, and a safety problem, and a production problem, but Toyota doesn't
You are incorrect. You didn't ORDER one on Jan 17, you RESERVED one on Jan 17. You don't order one until you get an invitation to configure your order. I reserved mine on 3/31/16. I received that invitation today. If you in fact did reserve one on Jan 17, it will tell you on your account when you can expect delivery. Pointing out that Toyota does not make a BEV is trashing them? Toyota is trashing themselves by lagging in development of a BEV. Tesla doesn't have a cash flow problem, it is not profitable because it is investing in their infrastructure such as the Gigafactory and the Supercharger system and as a result TSLA stock is volatile. Toyota with all their profitability has neither. Tesla production is projected to be around 25,000 cars per month by the end of this June. That is a production problem? Tesla is hiring 400 new employees each week. Is that a production problem? But believe what you want.
found this weird sketchy website What electric car to buy? The only list of BEV models of all EV brands. love ya bisco but not sure that last phrase is accurate
me neither, but i'll give toyota the benefit of the doubt for now, since there's no money to be made on bev's yet.
2000$ is an order, a reservation is free. If you want to order a Toyota, order one, you don't reserve it, and the toyota factory isn't under investigation for accidents that are claimed to be alternate reality. Bye. Hater.
Oh boy! Let me walk you through it! 1. You place a reservation which requires a $1000 deposit which is refundable anytime you want to cancel your reservation. 2. When you receive your invitation to order, it requires an additional $2500 to secure your order. The total of $3500 becomes non-refundable at that time. You didn't place a reservation did you, otherwise you would know? yes, you can walk in and take a Toyota home tonight because they don't have ~500K reservations waiting for one. But you knew that, didn't you?
Congrats!! Well that CT EV can't come soon enough (if the rumours are true). But then it's in a different class (compact hatchback vs. compact sedan)
Know your audience. Ordinary consumers aren't paying attention and couldn't care less. Know your audience. They aren't interested in an early-adopter party or even being first. Selling something in high-volume that's both profitable & sustainable is a huge challenge. The path for Toyota is very different from that of Tesla. Each could achieve the same criteria just fine, but premature celebrations aren't a good idea. There's a lot of resistance to come. Changing the status quo is far more difficult than appealing to early adopters.
Uninformed. That's my response to your claim, which is far better than what I've dealt with in the past... denial. I asked the fanboys "Who is the market for Volt?" countless times over the years. Being well informed, I was well aware they were just leaving in the moment seeing sales only from an early-adopter perspective. The problem of subsidies going away and audience changing was outright dismissed too. Those fanboys absolutely refused to acknowledge the flat sales (consistently between 1,600 and 1,700 monthly) would become an incredible challenge to grow when faced with innovator's dilemma. Sure enough, that's exactly what happened. GM targeted that same group for the gen-2 upgrade. The result has been a drop in sales instead of the much needed growth. Oops! Toyota is running a business that depends upon reliable profit. That means delivering a product that's simple to sells to the masses, those mainstream consumers who have very different purchase priorities than the fanboys. They want a nice balance for a good price. That's why Prius has been such a great on-going offering. The introduction of a plug brings about the necessity to carefully evaluate what their ordinary showroom shoppers will find a draw when doing comparisons at the dealer. That's a drastically different approach from what Tesla is doing... a non-legacy automaker with a limited product choice and basically no showroom.
