My bet is that the vast majority of the cost of the vehicle comes from making the basics, and then they add the features “no one wanted” in order to look good in the showroom, because they are a cheap way to sway dumb people to buy their car over a competitors
Battery production is still the bottleneck, so they want to squeeze out as much value per kwh as they can.
Selling one expensive luxury SUV with a 90kwh battery is a lot more profitable to them than selling two barebones econoboxes with a 45wkh battery pack.
And just to clarify, since this is Lemmy: This is not meant to justify or condone their behavior, just explain it.
They haven’t delivered anything yet. They have pre-orders for now that will fill a year of production, but how much of that is people who buy anything new but won’t buy again, vs sustainable people like this and so customers will keep coming.
There was lots of demand for Cybertruck… mostly from fanboys and bootlickers though.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable that an established EV maker got 10x the reservations than a brand new manufacturer did, even on a product clearly designed for edgelords.
If they stopped adding features nobody asked for it would be a lot cheaper. Look at how Slate is doing.
My bet is that the vast majority of the cost of the vehicle comes from making the basics, and then they add the features “no one wanted” in order to look good in the showroom, because they are a cheap way to sway dumb people to buy their car over a competitors
Battery production is still the bottleneck, so they want to squeeze out as much value per kwh as they can.
Selling one expensive luxury SUV with a 90kwh battery is a lot more profitable to them than selling two barebones econoboxes with a 45wkh battery pack.
And just to clarify, since this is Lemmy: This is not meant to justify or condone their behavior, just explain it.
They haven’t delivered anything yet. They have pre-orders for now that will fill a year of production, but how much of that is people who buy anything new but won’t buy again, vs sustainable people like this and so customers will keep coming.
Only time will tell.
Sure, they have simply demonstrated that there is demand.
Just like all the deposits on the cybertruck……oh wait.
There was lots of demand for Cybertruck… mostly from fanboys and bootlickers though.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable that an established EV maker got 10x the reservations than a brand new manufacturer did, even on a product clearly designed for edgelords.
majority of CT drivers here are asians in my area, and the ugly decorated ones that are promoting thier company are trumpers.