A Tesla over here, even with the massive government handouts to the EV industrie, goes for nearly twice the price of a full option BMW 5 series.
There is just no way to get it approved in my company car budget.
There is just no way to get it approved in my company car budget.
Additionally outside of the Autobahn, you're driving through congested city streets where the speed and acceleration is of no value.
We need a Tesla sub-brand that can sell cheaper, slower and smaller cars.
Step it up to a €10,000 slightly bigger EV with 80km/h and 200km and you satisfy even inter-city use.
Renault offer the Twizy but I think its overpriced - perhaps deliberately to avoid cannibalizing their higher-priced regular cars.
Tesla isn’t overpriced in Europe, it’s overpriced everywhere.
Realistically the Model S should be a €45-50K car the Model 3 should be around €20-25K.
Apple does truly amazing stuff for the mundane aspects of every device, even simple stuff like coloring cases, and all people can do is complain their laptops cost too much.
Tesla makes combines a set of off the shelf set of parts in a plastic bottle, causing an engineer to go "I'm amazed anyone would bother doing this for no discernible gain on such a mundane set of parts" and people misinterpret the amazement and tout it as an engineering marvel and say that's exactly why they deserve their asking price