This would be a legit game-changer.
I just learned that my EV was pulled off the production line due to parts shortages. I have a good understanding of the supply chain challenges worldwide but completely fail to understand how an assembly company like VAG/Audi can actually put something on the line with any risk of having to take it off. That just explodes the production cost per unit. Really poor production management practice there. If you don’t have all the parts or high probability of the just-in-time delivery of the parts, you don’t ever, ever, ever put the build on the line. Not with cars, not with computers, not with toaster ovens. Ever.
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Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll just pass that extra production cost on to you.
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I think everyone (except Tesla) is really scrambling. They’ve been caught with their pants down over the demand for EVs, and are desperate to scale up production. The parts shortage is screwing it all up, so there’s an industry wide river dance on their own junk.
GM saw a huge drop off in sales of ICE vehicles in 2021, and projected they’d ship 23,000 Hummer EVs in 2022. They’ve shipped about 300 so far, so they need to get their skates on. One just sold at auction for over $300,000, which is utter madness.
Tesla, meanwhile, is temporarily halting production at Berlin and Shanghai in order to double the output of both factories. Yes, they have a waiting list and their cars are expensive, but you’ll get one years before you can get anyone else’s vehicles, and their charging network is still light years ahead of the ad hoc, slow, broken or busy chargers everyone else is supposed to use.
There is madness at every turn in the used car market.
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Let this sink in: My old dealership that sold me my 2012 Audi A6 in September 2011 has been calling and sending me e-mails and notes in the mail for 3 months and just offered me $23K to buy it back. The car has 178,000 miles on it. It’s in decent condition but booked out at $8,300 on Kelly Blue Book right before the pandemic. An 11 year old car with 178K miles on it. $23K. The world has lost it’s mind.
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And you’re not taking that offer?
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He’d have to replace it with something, and his new car just got pulled from the production line.
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I am. I’ll stretch it out as far as I can on delivering it but will use one of the kids beater cars in the interim. One of the nicknames the family has for me is the “fleet manager”. I’ve trained 14 teenaged foster kids to drive over the years and would snap up $500 cars right and left for them to bang into things and crash. The driveway at my house always looked like I was having a big party. Of really poor people.
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I know I’ve said it before, but God bless you.
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He could replace it with the same model with fewer miles and still pocket 10 grand:
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Thanks, MM. That work is the most important of my life so far. A labor of love, if you will.
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The new DeLorean EV is appropriately batshit. Even more batshit, is that they plan to make a V8-powered car too.
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Are you telling me, that they built an EV… out of a DeLorean?
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According to Bloomberg the US crossing the 5% threshold in EV sales is a tipping point that will lead to this…
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If they can build them fast enough, this will happen easily.
An interesting time ahead for Tesla owners. There is $7.5 billion in federal funding earmarked for charging infrastructure, but it’s only going to be available to those who make their facilities available to all EVs. As a result, Tesla is reportedly going to open its charging network to all, even to the point of abandoning its own connector and going with the otherwise universal CCS.
The SuperCharger network is a major selling point for Tesla, because the non-Tesla fast-charging infrastructure is a mess. Part of the premium for a Tesla is paying for the build out of the charging network. But Tesla itself hasn’t been keeping up, with its sales outstripping its charging network expansion by a factor of 3. If the network is opened up to non-Tesla drivers, it’s going to be a disaster, and Tesla drivers are going to be pissed off.
Musk gets to trouser those sweet, sweet tax dollars though.
How is it that the world belongs to a tiny cabal of fucking freaks, weirdos and deviants.
Disgusting
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Death is to good for some “people”
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