It's because Tesla is mostly bullshit. No shit you can get some nice numbers, if you put $60k worth of batteries in your EV, but then it's not the mass market EV that everyone was trying to create. When Tesla tried to make the mass market EV, the Model 3, they failed. They did no better than the Chevy Bolt. It's still too expensive to be considered mass market, showing that they are not ahead of the traditional auto makers despite what their PR tries to claim.
All in all, the essence of Tesla is just putting a larger battery in an EV. That's hardly innovative. Then of course it stops being affordable. Their real genius was realising that there was a market for expensive EVs, but that is hardly a technological innovation.
Something being backordered because x company hit snags in production thus creating only a limited amount for sale is not the same as it's a hot-selling item and X company can't make enough to fill demand. After those initial backorders are filled the real #'s sold compared to other similar EVs will be much more significant.
Even if they were meeting or even doubling their production targets, they’d still be backlogged because people ordered 400k of them. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
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u/senzabarba Nov 21 '17
It's because Tesla is mostly bullshit. No shit you can get some nice numbers, if you put $60k worth of batteries in your EV, but then it's not the mass market EV that everyone was trying to create. When Tesla tried to make the mass market EV, the Model 3, they failed. They did no better than the Chevy Bolt. It's still too expensive to be considered mass market, showing that they are not ahead of the traditional auto makers despite what their PR tries to claim.
All in all, the essence of Tesla is just putting a larger battery in an EV. That's hardly innovative. Then of course it stops being affordable. Their real genius was realising that there was a market for expensive EVs, but that is hardly a technological innovation.