Because dealership model is stupid. Why would consumers want to haggle with a car salesman at a dealership and pay a premium for an unnecessary middleman when they can buy directly from manufacturer for cheaper?
How do you think Tesla's are being sold now? They've already overturned these stupid laws in almost all the states except for Texas and a couple others. These laws were meant to restrict car dealerships from having unfair advantage over dealerships that they sold to. Tesla doesn't sell to dealerships, they sell D2C so obviously doesn't apply to them. I'm glad we're not being forced to deal with car dealerships and paying a higher price thanks to an unnecessary middleman. All others will have to follow Tesla's lead or go bankrupt.
Tesla doesn't "sell" it's cars to company-owned stores. Tesla has a D2C business model like Warby Parker. The stores are mainly for show and tell and consumer education, they're not dealerships. People just order online.
We're not allowed to criticize HN? I'm not sure which rules I was breaking? I simply gave my opinion on a pattern I've noticed on HN. You're censoring me because you disagree?
HN constantly attacks Tesla and Elon so you shouldn't be surprised. In fact, I've associated negative attacks from HN as an indicator that the company/person being attacked is probably doing something good.
Didn't California just pass legislation that calls for cutting down trees in forests to make them more "spread out"?
This is where they lose me. The reason why wildfires exist in the first place is because of climate change; deforestation is the opposite of fighting climate change.
Very strange California taking a cue out of Trump's climate change denying book.
Copy pasting previous comment since the number of people misrepresenting the ground breaking tech that was announced is to high to spend energy on:
1)56% reduction in cost (which blows way past the $100/kwh holy grail for EV to sub $40). This by itself is insane and most people in the industry thought it wont happen for at least another decade. This puts the last nail in the coffin for the future of ICE cars.
2) 54% increase in range. The new Model S will have minimum 520mi of range and much more actually when they start production. Range anxiety gone out the window.
3) New manufacturing tech along with vertical integration will allow Tesla to scale 55x their current rate of production and become the world's largest auto manufacturer by many multiples. Tesla will not only produce their own battery cells but they're even getting into mining!!
Who's paying you to downplay what was actually announced?
1)56% reduction in cost (which blows way past the $100/kwh holy grail for EV to sub $40). This by itself is insane and most people in the industry thought it wont happen for at least another decade. This puts the last nail in the coffin for the future of ICE cars.
2) 54% increase in range. The new Model S will have minimum 520mi of range and much more actually when they start production. Range anxiety gone out the window.
3) New manufacturing tech along with vertical integration will allow Tesla to scale 55x their current rate of production and become the world's largest auto manufacturer by many multiples. Tesla will not only produce their own battery cells but they're even getting into mining!!
Along with many other things announced in 3+ hour technical video. But yea 16% density improvement is the only takeaway from this...
Edit: I like how you're editing your original comment after I've already replied without any mention of it. Please practice honest forum etiquette.
Tesla just made ICE cars obsolete. How is this not on the front page of HN? It's even trending on twitter. It's very strange this isn't on the front of HN.
Great review! As soon as I saw the price reduction I knew there were going to be huge compromises. Looks like I'll be sitting this one out. If FB want's to be the leader in VR, they need to get back to their roots the original Oculus team strived for - QUALITY.