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Originally Posted by secretsquirrel
Battery technology is improving yearly. In 10 years batteries are going to be more powerful and cheaper than they are today. Telsa knows this and is making serious money from people prepaying.
Mercedes sees the writing on the wall and is working with Telsa. I suspect many other companies are also. Once Telsa completes their supercharger network, other companies will buy in to share the technology. This is a game changer.
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Batteries might get better in 10 years or they might not, and generally the better performing battery the higher the cost to manufacture it, so it might be a wash at best. Some people may not want to play that bet.
But if you are only buying a 70K car because it's fucking cool, then none of this rational discussion really matters. I'd just say the number of potential buyers of the Tesla because the car is just fucking cool may be a limiting factor in the company's overall sales.
Considering the battery has the equivalent of 2 gallons of gasoline, it's a damned good piece of engineering to go 200 -250 miles per charge, but it is a limited purpose car in some respects.