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Tesla moving back to making niche vehicles and selling tech/manufacturing capability to other makers has always been in the cards. It's not as sexy as dominating the front-line market, but it's probably the most valid middle-range strategy there is.
I mean, I drove a Volvo with spectacular Yamaha engine, and that's just one example among... many. It's a concept that works.
Hey aren't you the guy who thinks Tesla doesn't have any novel tech? Odd GM wouldn't just do it themselves...
I never said anything of the kind, except with respect to the battery tech.
Volvo could well have built the V-8 that's in many models of the last ten years; it was a sensible decision to buy an exceptional, off-the-shelf solution from another maker. (A maker that couldn't build a Volvo if its corporate life depended on it.)
In all your kneejerk frothing and spitting and fuming here, you've overlooked that I am complimenting Tesla for having a mature technology worth selling to others. Your problem is that you think like Musk - tech uber alles - and throw your endless temper tantrums here because people just aren't smart enough to know how utterly superior Teslas are.
The article makes a good case for why Tesla will probably never build a pickup that has more than niche sales; for good or bad, pickup owners don't want a minimalist, uber-tech interior and console. Many of them don't even like the refined interior of a Ridgeline.
So yeah, a pickup maker with 100 years experience outsourcing the driveline to another maker with mature technology to sell: win-win. Except, of course, to you.
I never said anything of the kind, except with respect to the battery tech.
Volvo could well have built the V-8 that's in many models of the last ten years; it was a sensible decision to buy an exceptional, off-the-shelf solution from another maker. (A maker that couldn't build a Volvo if its corporate life depended on it.)
In all your kneejerk frothing and spitting and fuming here, you've overlooked that I am complimenting Tesla for having a mature technology worth selling to others. Your problem is that you think like Musk - tech uber alles - and throw your endless temper tantrums here because people just aren't smart enough to know how utterly superior Teslas are.
The article makes a good case for why Tesla will probably never build a pickup that has more than niche sales; for good or bad, pickup owners don't want a minimalist, uber-tech interior and console. Many of them don't even like the refined interior of a Ridgeline.
So yeah, a pickup maker with 100 years experience outsourcing the driveline to another maker with mature technology to sell: win-win. Except, of course, to you.
I'm fine with it
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Originally Posted by easy62
Fake news, GM has the ability and resources to do it on their own and btw Tesla denies it also.
What, one EV-fanboi blog overhearing this in the men's room isn't enough for you? It sure is for some.
Not till i hear it on my local Detroit news stations after all this is we’re GM and Ford and Chrysler call home.
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