10 year advantage Tesla has almost kept intact to date.
Could you name so domains were Tesla is 10 years ahead?
the problems to convert existing, outdated and often unusable factories to EV production
That’s what manufacturers do with all new cars or major refreshes. Basically everything inside gets sold and retooled. Look at european manufacturers, all their factories are retooled ICE ones and quality wise these doesn’t seem to be worse.
nor have the burden of dealerships
What burden exactly?
Tesla doesn’t outsource almost anything
Just battery cells, suspension parts, radar chips, cameras, tires, wheels, plastic parts, fasteners etc.
When Ford has an outsourced piece of hardware coming from China being replaced with a different one, the time they need to adapt their car software can be much much longer than the time Tesla need to do the same with an in-house item
Hm, Tesla was using Bosch radar and switched to cameras and their autopilot software with vision only is still lagging behind the Mobileye+Bosch Radar one.
Could you name so domains were Tesla is 10 years ahead?
That’s what manufacturers do with all new cars or major refreshes. Basically everything inside gets sold and retooled. Look at european manufacturers, all their factories are retooled ICE ones and quality wise these doesn’t seem to be worse.
What burden exactly?
Just battery cells, suspension parts, radar chips, cameras, tires, wheels, plastic parts, fasteners etc.
Hm, Tesla was using Bosch radar and switched to cameras and their autopilot software with vision only is still lagging behind the Mobileye+Bosch Radar one.