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Apr 24th, 2024, 19:40 | #1261 |
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The MG isn't a bad car, not a fan of the interior though. But reliable with a decent dealer network.
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It's not about the money, he's ego driven.
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Apr 24th, 2024, 21:43 | #1264 |
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Tesla is losing its ego.
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Apr 25th, 2024, 01:18 | #1265 |
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I’d agree to a point, but he gets satisfaction from disruption, not longevity….
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Apr 25th, 2024, 10:27 | #1266 |
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New to the forum, new to electric cars
This is a mega long thread so sorry if I'm repeating stuff already discussed.
I very recently moved from diesel to electric (MY24 XC40 Recharge). I also moved from Mercedes to Volvo, so new to Volvo too. I'm curious what some of the Volvo veterans (those with EVs and not) have to share about electric cars? For me
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Apr 25th, 2024, 11:44 | #1267 |
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I agree that's how he sees himself and his legacy but I've yet to see any real world disruption that he's brought about.
Telsa was novel but it isn't the Model T nor the iPhone. SpaceX is evolutionary, not revolutionary and at the current rate will probably get bought out or mission changed before it ever gets close to Mars colonisation. I'll wager that Tesla Bot will also disappear without trace, at least as a consumer product as opposed to a glorified paint/welding/assembly robot for manufacturing plants. The likes of Boston Dynamics seem years ahead. Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Torsvalds and before them Trammel/Sinclair/Curry and Bell Labs. They were disruptors, brining about generational behavioural, consumer and technological changes and with it the creation of new markets and the total destruction of old ones. To my mind, Elon is certainly a successful wealth generator and a very high-profile individual who goes out of his way to seek the oxygen of publicity and controversy but currently an also-ran when it comes to real innovation and disruptive change. Ironically, I think there's more Edison about him than Tesla.
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He's no innovator but does have an uncanny ability to get people to invest 10s of billions in his oddball schemes. Who in their right mind would have stumped up the cash to buy Twitter?
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From what I can see the paying yo charge your EV is over complicated with app’s etc etc instead of just pulling up, plug in, pay by debit card Charger reliability will always be an issue but if there was a bigger network so you had more choice in a local area it wouldn’t be a problem. Once again a result of too much, too quick without thought to the infrastructure including petrol which could have a bank of chargers. There’s still much work to be done before this becomes user friendly TT
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Apr 25th, 2024, 18:58 | #1270 |
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Par for the course with technology unfortunately, there's often an initial explosion of competing, incompatible standards in a nascent market. Look at phone/smartphone chargers/carkits, early home computers, the first commercial electricity distribution networks and the early railway companies for a start.
It's a shame we continue to repeat those mistakes but it will get there in a few years. Manufactures will soon enough realise that significant market growth depends on consumer acceptance, and likely governments will get involved at some stage too, as with Apple and the EU recently.
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