With evs it seems those concerns are mostly gone, and now battery risk remains, which they currently have no advantage with.
If you look at the graph to the right on the link below, hybrids are still edging out battery EVs, although the trend lines are definitely in favor of battery EVs long term.
I think Honda will be fine. Toyota has lots of time as well I think as car buyers have a certain amount of brand loyalty.
If it were not for brand loyalty and emotional bias, BYD would probably be storming the world with their inexpensive EV options.
Tesla is in the biggest trouble I think. They have been a luxury brand despite a total lack of luxury. Once everybody catches up on EV range, what do they have? The charging network is the biggest advantage. Perhaps they should pivot to dominating that. Probably harder to avoid regulatory break-up on that front though I suppose.
There is not much battery risk these days though and less all the time. At some point, the problem for car makers is going to be that the batteries last too long.
With mechanical parts, nobody faults you if things start to fail after a decade or two. What will the car market look like when cars start maintaining peak performance for decades?
They haven’t tested the current generation 3, S, or X.
But they are. [0][1]
They're hitting large double digit % increase in sales every month and are very quickly catching up to Tesla's sales. Brand loyalty only buys you so much time when the competitors are half the cost.
[0]: https://insideevs.com/news/702783/byd-plugin-car-sales-decem... [1]: https://insideevs.com/news/716305/top-electric-carmakers-sal...
I'm in my 40s, but still only on my second car, which is an old Honda Civic. I plan to drive it until I can purchase a second- or third-gen EV Civic. (Surely Honda eventually plans to make an EV Civic?)
Kia and Hyundai still haven’t reached the rock solid reliability of Japanese autos, despite having been around for much longer than Tesla.
Traditional manufacturers will likely have an easier time transitioning to EVs than EV manufacturers will, building reliable cars.
But once you're making EVs, they seem a lot more reliable, which let's people go for style and function more than just pure reliability numbers.
My Tesla seems to have a lot of creaks and rattles since <5k miles in, which they describe as 'normal'.
The problem is they wanted to cost cut so they put the CVTs in car models with too much torque from the engine.
And if you go by that rule basically every faulty transmission would be excused. Chevy truck 4l60e transmissions suck too... Ohh if they were just paired with smaller lighter trucks with a V6 they'd have been fine!
But they weren't. And that's the failure of the engineering teams that chose them.
Is that why legacy auto is loosing money on every EV they sell?
Sounds like they’ll need to try making actually good cars.