While I agree, Rivian built a factory too and they also are doing a ton of internal development. I am aware that car startups burn piles of money to get started, but the whole point of posting the values of each is to compare where each company is relative to each other. Those numbers are also...
Could you please tell me what the reason for this is? I speculate that Lucid has sold as many airs as they have because of the Pure trim and generous leasing deals. The Taycan has decreased sales because the Porsche premium isn't popular in a strained economy. Releasing a 120K dollar SUV into...
I have to disagree with the red text. Polestar is a division of Volvo and while they might fail it will have more to do with import tariffs and bans than not making it. Rivian has a pretty solid plan and has a good chance to be net positive on a per vehicle basis in the fourth quarter of this...
Yeah, that's my thoughts as well. This is Lucid's make-or-break vehicle, and I wonder if they will sell enough of them to meet their ramping necessity. I look at Rivian with their R1's and how they only move 50K units a year and think there can't be much more of a market for the Gravity. The...
Most of what he says is meaningless. Of course drivers matter, but someone with a better reaction time than him in the Lucid would negate his reaction time thing. Notice from the two Hagerty races the Lucid runs roughly the same time at both the prepped and the unprepped track while the demon...
If you will only test drive the Sapphire on 800HP mode because you're worried that it will ruin the other cars, that means you have already made up your mind and consider the Sapphire to be the better car. All of these cars are a bad financial investment, so why not buy the one you want most?
That is a fair point about how much Rivian has spent; they've also had over a hundred thousand vehicles on the road. Regarding cash burn inefficiencies, it's an interesting strategic discussion for sure. Is it better to slowly burn money but not get a solid foothold in the marketplace or burn...
Wouldn't you keep a detailed record of dates and times when your car went in for service if it's been such a lemon? I had a Mazda once that was a total POS, and I bought an old-school calendar and marked all the days so I could lemon-law it. The dealer overnighted parts for the last repair of...