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Originally Posted by E90M3JETS
Agree. While the new Tesla 3 has over 500,000 orders this will continue to collect dust in the showrooms. I thought BMW was smarter than this. This design is fugly and won't sell well at not in the US.
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It is not just about the US. |
Agree, but the US does set the EV tone for the rest of the world, courtesy of Tesla's leadership.
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And this one is on schedule and ready to be sold in the last quarter of the year not four years from now.
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Model 3 is due out in ~16 months, not 4 years from now.
i3 is indeed here today, and ready to be sold.
All that's lacking is customer demand. i3 sales for 1Q are down 78% from a year ago, while the rest of the EV market is up.
The new i3 with bigger batteries is an incremental improvement on the old, but the added weight has minimized range improvement to only 81-->114 miles (+40%). Average mileage is also down to 3.7 miles / KWh.
That really sucks.
So, it's heavier than the old REX, shorter range that the old REX?
Bummer.
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