On Fri Jul 08 22:20:46 PDT 2022 [email protected] said: >On 9 Jul 2022 at 1:15, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > >> The tesla prices have gone up by about 20% since last year. > >Yeah, for all their earlier talk about how they wanted to save the world >with EVs, these days Tesla act like traditional corporate capitalists - if >you're leading the market, it means that your price is too low. Time to >raise it.
As far as can be seen, the main reason that Tesla increased their prices was to REDUCE demand. They already have a 6 month+ waiting list. They also have the highest profit/car of any car manufacturer. So, if they ever do get to the point where the demand is less than what they can produce, they can lower prices and still make good profits. The current high prices lets them do more NOW to increase capability. I'd love to see the other car manufacturers start seriously building EV's. We do need more, and more competition. Most of the "XYZ will beat Tesla in 2 or 3 years" predictions seem to always mean "In 2 or 3 years, we think XYZ will produce more EV's that Tesla does TODAY". Completely ignoring Teslas documented growth rate. Many of these predictions also seem to leave out any consideration of where XYZ will get the materials/batteries for the cars. About the only company that has been working on long-term contracts for such materials is Tesla. The others seem to assume additional supplies will just magically appear when they want it. -- Tigers prowl and Dragons soar in my dreams... _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
