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And expanded it significantly. Regardless, they are further along on the path to profitability.

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?

Anyone who watches this and still doesn't believe EVs are the future is delusional or blind.

Not according to her apparently. I liked that Audi, she did not.

My wife told me the same thing about her Audi when I got my Rivian, so I had to get her an i4M50.

The Chinese aren't exactly known for respecting intellectual property rights.

Agree, and some of the issues were due to the CEO's insistence on that crazy design and thick stainless steel body.

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...

Solid metal shielding underneath, unless you're bashing it hardcore, I wouldn't worry about it failing. I wasn't trying to say that all other SUVs are inferior because they cannot do the Rubicon trail. That would be a silly statement, of course, most SUVs aren't as rugged as the R1S because...

I also regularly use conserve mode on the highway, and it doesn't chew through tires. The forces of stopping and accelerating primarily wear tires in a vehicle with 900ftlb torque. When traveling at a constant speed, such as on the highway, there is very little of that force going on. A few...

It seems there's a stark contrast between your ranking and Peter's claim. You've ranked the EV sedans, indicating some are good and some are not very good. However, Peter's claim is that all besides his are not very good, which would place them at least at #4 in your ranking system. "Not very...

But he didn't say the apple pie was good. He said it was NOT VERY GOOD. It's important to remember that public relations is not about denigrating the competition or staying silent. It's about finding a balanced message highlighting your product's advantages. For instance, a statement like...

Saying something is not very good means it's not very good. How can something be good, while not being very good? I think you're splitting that hair pretty finely.