Why do you care whether Tesla has a good car or GM has a good car, rather than, overall, we have many good cars to choose from?
>I know Musk has already mentioned that Model Y will be cheaper, but we don't know just how much cheaper. Hopefully, it will be like $25,000.
We haven't even seen the M3, or heard the price. But we're already talking about the next, cheaper model?
Of course I'd love to have many good cars to choose from, but there's no sign of that happening any time soon.
I'll bet that the cars from Tesla and GM within similar price range will have similar features and performance. Why would you think that Tesla, operating at a much smaller scale, will necessarily be able to do everything cheaper and better? That seems counterintuitive; GM has scale and a dialed in supply chain.
I couldn't tell you exactly why Tesla is able to do better than GM, despite GM having vastly more resources, but it's quite clear that they will.
You know for a fact that a car that doesn't exist yet is faster than one that does? That's interesting.
I, on the other hand, will wait until there's a comparable Bolt and Model 3 on the market, with a similar price, to determine what's better. A 3 series BMW is also "better" than Bolt, but that's irrelevant.
>"The charging infrastructure for long distance travel in the Bolt is awful"
You realize that there are far more regular chargers across the nation than superchargers, right?
"You realize that there are far more regular chargers across the nation than superchargers, right?"
You realize that the vast majority of "regular chargers" are L2 units putting out 6-10kW and are therefore completely worthless for long distance travel? And that the CCS infrastructure is woefully incomplete in the US? And that even if CCS were ubiquitous, the Bolt maxes out at 180MPH charging, which is terrible?
Plan a drive from NYC to LA using the Supercharger network and "regular chargers" and compare how long the trips would take. And that's assuming that the CCS units, which are often installed in single units, aren't blocked or broken.
This is different from a "fact".
>Plan a drive from NYC to LA using the Supercharger network and "regular chargers" and compare how long the trips would take.
Plan a drive across Canada, where I live, and see how far you get with the Supercharger Network. I'll be stranded 300 miles from where I start.
But guess what? Charging infrastructure isn't rocket science. It can be ramped up quickly.