On 21 Apr 2016 at 4:04, brucedp5 via EV wrote:
> You have to love Sergio Marchionne
Nope.
> he's pretty much harmless.
Nope.
> As the CEO of FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), he isn't very interested in
> the electric car segment.
Yep.
> His company is currently selling the Fiat 500e ... Its success,
> however, was limited ...
By him, deliberately.
> and Fiat only really did it to show it's not completely oblivious to
> everything that's going on in the industry right now.
Nope.
Repeat after me: "Compliance car."
> In fact, Marchionne even urged people not to buy the 500e because the
> company was losing money with it, which isn't something you hear too often
> in this world.
Yep. See above.
>
> Apart from Fiat, the Jeep brand is also doing well thanks to the new
> Renegade and Cherokee models
Innovation! (Nope.)
> For now, he aimed his guns at the Tesla Model 3 - something that is
> beginning to look like everybody's favorite activity -
As long as you define "everybody" as "old men with old ideas" and not
"hundreds of thousands of people who want to buy one."
>
> Marchionne thinks it would only take FCA twelve months to build a rival for
> the new EV sedan from Palo Alto
Nope.
> nothing is certain for now and anything can happen.
"The test of intellect is a refusal to belabor the obvious."
-- Alfred Bester
> But they do seem to be playing all their money on one card.
Most old men with old ideas usually do.
I doubt that I'll ever buy a Tesla, for my own reasons, but I still admire
the cars and what the company is doing. I'm also amused at the way the
mainstream automakers dismiss them. I've seen that attitude before in the
automotive and other businesses. It didn't end well for them.
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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