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.
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.
Ha! I got my car clipped like that. It’s an old car, so I just duck taped it back on. Lol. I’m not paying, claiming, or making someone else pay that kinda money for something so stupid.
Someone in our household smoked our Model 3 mirror backing into the garage and it cost $1k CAD and they came to our house to do it. Didn’t even charge me labour for some reason. It looked very easy to do, but the number of antennas in there was something else.
I’d settle for cheaper.
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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.
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Just like all the deposits on the cybertruck……oh wait.
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majority of CT drivers here are asians in my area, and the ugly decorated ones that are promoting thier company are trumpers.
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.
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Ha! I got my car clipped like that. It’s an old car, so I just duck taped it back on. Lol. I’m not paying, claiming, or making someone else pay that kinda money for something so stupid.
Someone in our household smoked our Model 3 mirror backing into the garage and it cost $1k CAD and they came to our house to do it. Didn’t even charge me labour for some reason. It looked very easy to do, but the number of antennas in there was something else.
Well no cameras nor sensors in there though. Antennas? I would only expect cables for tilt adjustments and heating.
Good point on the cameras - those are in the body. It’s where the car houses the GPS, cellular, and Bluetooth antennas (the latter for lock/unlock)
Didn’t know that! Interesting