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      11-08-2019, 01:31 PM   #10
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I've heard and witnessed this sort of blindness before. The Japanese can't build luxury cars. That attitude didn't work well for the Germans. Hell, my dad has a 2002 or so MB with a cassette deck. Could you even buy tapes in 2002?

So far the EV game from the Germans is weak as all hell. VW promises the first truly viable one with the ID3 but we aren't getting it here. This will end badly for the Germans
No blindness here. Actually test drove an Model 3 last week for a possible daily. I plan on switching to having a dedicated track car, so why not make the daily a possible electric. But the chargers at my office are sh*t.

Keyword or words in your post...”So far”. Germans, Japan, Korea, US automakers will make their move. I have suspicion they aren’t worried about the 2.1% early adopters. The author of this article can revisit this topic when BEV’s reach over 50% market share, decades from now. I no doubts it will not read the same.
You've lost me. 50% of the market share? They're already outselling the combined German sedan models. So okay, now we're there.

This isn't about total market, it's about the near luxury sedan, which EV's are presently dominating as most buyers move to CUV's. But Tesla is coming for that market too. There's only so far up market that the Germans can do, ceding the low end is a terrific move.
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