They seem to listen to so-called automotive "journalists", regulators (despite regulatory capture being a thing), and foreign governments. But never their actual customers. My theory: Now that the western world has joined China in a style of soft-communism, winners are losers are picked by the government, so once you are selected as a winner via Blackrock you no longer need to sell anything. Your real customers are the elites running the government or investment funds (which are just vehicles to manipulate economics so that government selected businesses succeed and free market victors fail). If they want EVs, you build EVs.If they want ugliness, you design ugliness.If they want everything black/white/grey to demoralize their population so they don't revolt (a la Equilibrium), what's all you paint your cars.
>>28797127Because they are run by marketing departments nowadays. Much like any other large company.
>>28797127What the fuck are you talking about? It's simple, they see a car maker Tesla being evaluated as a tech company they want a piece of that pie. Because building a sensible reliable car is a suckers game, the customer has already made up their mind about which brand they are going to buy, why waste the effort to build something good when you can build something shit, charge a fortune and still paywall features that are built into the car, sell the drivers data to advertisers and put ads on the dash board because they are not customers, they're piggy banks you shake to get a few more coins.
>>28797191Yes, well they all tried this and now they're all going bankrupt over it and beckpedaling (Ford, Porsche, VW, etc.), so clearly it doesn't work.
>>28797200EV sales in Europe are much higher than projected five or ten years ago - its just that the competition from local, Korean and Chinese brands forces prices down and customer competition up.The situation in Europe is excellent for the customer. A new Model 3 40% cheaper in real price compared to 2019.
>>28797208yes, typically when your cars depreciate 35% in a year and have stiff competition from China etc. you have to lower prices. I'm not sure if collapsing prices (despite subsidies) are a good sign of increased demand.
>>28797127Because their customers are the same people that need instructions for spray and wipe.
