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Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by bwilson4web, Oct 18, 2018.

  1. bwilson4web

    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Source: https://www.automotive-iq.com/electrics-electronics/reports/the-rise-of-e-mobility?utm_campaign=AUIQ NL 2018 Week 42&utm_medium=email&utm_source=internalemail&MAC=AUIQ1-OKHD0I9|1-E3QCWCD&elqContactId=13876107&disc=&elqCampId=33647

    An overwhelming 41 percent of the industry professionals responding to the IQ Automotive survey had the highest expectations - in an industry spending USD 90 billion on EVs - of Elon Musk’s strategy for Tesla Inc.

    This from a company with sales of only three models totaling just over 100,000 vehicles in 2017. While Tesla is the most prominent electric car maker, “soon it will be everybody and his brother,” Daimler AG Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche told reporters on Monday at the Detroit show. Investments in electrified vehicles announced to date include at least $19 billion by automakers in the United States, $21 billion in China and $52 billion in Germany.    ​

    A summary of surveys risks being an exercise in bias confirmation. The one happy omission was any discussion of 48V systems. Still, their efforts to be cute on some pages detracted from the hard data.

    They require a free subscription to access their White Papers. The price is right for what you get.

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    Investing billion in electric cars that won't see the light of day for years is way less meaningful than Tesla's quarterly sales numbers pushing 100K...

    They can throw as much money as they want at this huge problem, but fact is with Tesla competitors having no battery factories shovel ready, with no charging station infrastructure... Maybe in ten years they'll finaly catch up? Then again how many of them will no longer exists under the crushing weight of debt due to waiting way, way to long to break ties from fossil fool industry?
     
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    bwilson4web BMW i3 and Model 3

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    Elon said it best. These others are not competition as much as complementary. They fill in EV niches for those who prefer a more 'traditional' car experience or some tweak Tesla does not cover. For example:
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    Bob Wilson
     
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    Sadly - it's even worse than that ... because the complementary plugin builders seem to have no intent at all, in creating multi-stall - nationwide - comprehensive infrastructure, on par with their ICE style flamible toxic dino juice using stations. Their rational is, 'well, we don't build for gassers, so there's no need'. Only VW is 'claiming' they will build infrastruture ... and their claim requires you to have to believe the same folks that pulled off the biggest eco - polution control fraud in history. So despite all the tesla warts ... their infrastructure is a massive trump card that the othes don't even yet acknowledge.
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