Sorry, Im justa old country boy and have never heard of service centres for cars. To my mind if cars aren't sold through dealers, then wheres the trained technician to service them?
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Sorry, Im justa old country boy and have never heard of service centres for cars. To my mind if cars aren't sold through dealers, then wheres the trained technician to service them?
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Tesla operates a number of Showrooms, these are like the Dealers lots except they are owned by Tesla corporation making them more like the Apple Stores at the mall, They offer test drives and sales as well as their own Roadside assistance. they also operate mechanics shops. This fits the Apple Computer model as well.
I guess I must take back what I said, if I remember correctly to Plawolf, about his suggestion that China might build nuclear plants to power its SCS holdings.
Or more importantly financial backing, especially consideration of financial backing for any future idea of his. Though I am sure success with SpaceX will more than make up for any failure with Tesla.
Speaking of affordable consumer EVs, does anyone know what happened to BYD's electric car ambitions? Seems like they retreated to buses and fleet vehicles after all the hoopla around five years ago about not only pushing their e6 in China but also bringing it to the US, and with a solid investment from Warren Buffett.
I think Western and Japanese car manufacturers got their act together and turned out electric/hybrid cars that had more appeal.
I had the same questions as you about a year ago which prompted me to visit articles on the BYD a year ago.
It seems BYD have been working on cars like the Qin, Tang, Ming, that are designed to have more appeal than the E6.
Maybe we will get to see these models making their way on to European and American markets.
I don't think Western and Japanese car makers made any better EV's, nothing that is a segment equivalent to the e6 and better, however they did see the writing on the wall early and bet on hybrids much more than pure EV's.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
EVs still have a way to go. They're still more for the environmentally conscience. I know someone that was heading to buy a Tesla. Even though we're in California that leads the US in electric cars, the infrastructure is just not there yet so it won't be like the convenience of driving a regular car. I told her that if she wanted electric then she should get a hybrid just so she has the gasoline backup. She bought a Chevy Volt instead and it has a lot of the fancy gadgets she loved in the Tesla and at 1/3 the cost. What she find out about electric vehicles in general? Takes a long time to charge fully without buying the supercharger. Also doing anything else besides driving i.e. using the heater or air conditioning or playing the entertainment system drains the battery faster. She would've never been able to make it from SF to LA in a pure electric. Even in Silicon Valley where it has the most extensive electric car infrastructure in the country, there are reports of people getting into fights over charging stations that are fully occupied where people are pulling the plugs out of other people's cars to charge theirs. So EV technology is still not up there in pace with the convenience of regular cars for the non-environmentally conscience to buy.
Equation
Lieutenant General
EV cars are made for daily commutes with the current technology right now. It's just wasn't made for long road trips...for now of course.