I think we will be seeing a lot of this very soon. The person worried the most is Elon. The technology is out there, as is the demand. Now that the big boys are making these cars, Tesla will have an increasingly uphill battle. You sort of wonder if Tesla may go the way of the Tucker.
Tucker only built about 50 cars. There are probably more Teslas than that within a couple mile radius of my house.
Your point is well taken, but when Tucker got into business there were orders of magnitude fewer cars anywhere. The point is , he was a revolutionary and got eaten by the established companies (and some underhanded dealings).
Have you seen the number of preorders? Sure a compact crossover like the model Y would be in demand, yet it'll both be more expensive and harder to build...
Worried? Go read the Tesla mission statement again, and then reflect on the patent announcement they made last year. If Ford and Audi and everybody follow through with all the promises they're making, Elon will dance a happy jig.
If you read beyond the clickbait title, you'll see a very slanted article which boils down to one statement "Fainting spells, dizziness, seizures and other symptoms have led to more than 100 calls to ambulances since 2014"...What IS the industry average of ambulance calls? Surely every auto factory has ambulance calls...In the article it does state that Musk says they're above the industry average in safety...
CNBC is crap journalism.
Well said; too bad the OP didn't post the Guardian article to begin with...
No worries, someone else did.
That's a "days since lost-time on-the-job accident" average of three days. Every factory job I've worked considered less than 100 weird, and when I left the paper mill, they were at 335.
And Escape is hardly an SUV. Today every vehicle with more than 4 inches of ground clearance is considered a crossover.
