Bill wrote: If you are going to sell them after you build one of your own, it is going > to be very difficult to beat the Tesla on performance, safety, and > value/dollar. >
The assumption that I plan to compete with Tesla out of the gate is simply crazy. Tesla has a HUGE head start over me. If it were possible for me to compete either of the following would have to be true: 1) Tesla engineers are all idiots. 2) I am smarter than all the Tesla engineers combined. 3) Tesla hasn't learned a thing in all the years they have been in development and production. Since we can safely assume 1 and 3 are not true, thanks for the compliment Bill! ;^) You want a convertible, cut the top off of a Tesla. Do it very nicely and > neatly of course, but that would be your best option. Sell that customized > model of a Tesla, using the same business model as van conversions, stretch > limos, and bulletproof cars use. > That would be great if I wanted to be in the business of converting cars. I don't. Someone else can do that if they want to. > One thing that you are not taking into account is that all OEM EVs are > _very_ aerodynamic. (No exceptions.) This is directly related to range, the > cost of the battery pack, the weight of the battery pack, and the cost of > the car. A car with crappy range simply won't sell. Likewise, a car with a > heavy (and expensive) battery pack to make up for a bad Cd will take a > performance hit because of the extra weight, and won't sell either. > Your assumptions are based on your perspective of value. Obviously nothing wrong with that and it's probably quite similar to others on this list. No offense, but no one on this list would be a target customer of mine exactly for that reason. My target customers have a COMPLETELY different perspective of value. > ICE cars really don't have to be aerodynamic to sell well. Poor aero > doesn't impact the purchase price, or the weight of the vehicle, and > doesn't alter the performance appreciably. All that really changes is the > EPA estimated mileage. The customer doesn't care mostly because he doesn't > think that far ahead. > Same with my target audience. All they care about is that the car is an "EV" and that they can CLAIM to care about the environment. > Thus, if you want a "classic" or "sporty" or some other styling, you can't > sacrifice aerodynamic drag to achieve it. You must carefully style the car > to achieve the desired look, while being very very aerodynamic. Not easy to > do, but you must to build an EV that will actually sell. To sell, it must > have range and performance and be competitive in cost. That, in turn, > requires that it have a low Cd. Thus, a Mustang or a Corvette won't work. > Awful Cd. Again, different value system. My range will come from better battery technology. It's not there yet (nowhere close) but I want to have my cars built and tested before that happens. I cannot wait for that to happen before I pull the trigger on this project. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160114/3225234e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
