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We live in an SUV-driven world with EV soon taking priority over ICE.
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I understand iNext aims at level 3 autonomy, 600km range and basically offering a comprehensive contemporary EV vehicle but it's hard to see it as much more than an electric X5 from a certain perspective. Same platform, size, utility. Not much different to what i4 will be to 4GC or iX3 to X3. Only perhaps more advanced in regards to autonomy and connectivity. Btw, it's quite disappointing how the i4 shapes to be nothing like the iVision concept but rather an electric version of the new 4GC which actually looks more GT than GC. Too tall and bulbous. |
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[QUOTE=Faust;25862303]Wasn't i3 the first from the ground up BMW EV?
That's what I was thinking! I'm all for the FULL EV cars but there has to be a decent price point. Audi asking 85K for an E-tron is why they sit on the lots. I think getting 18 miles then switching to ICE is completely useless. My commute is 40RT and I create my own power at home. Make a 330e or X3e that has the range of a 10+ year old Chevy Volt and I'm in. |
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And then, in order to do that stuff, you gotta have a vertically integrated supply chain - Tesla has proven you can't halfass it by pulling random generic parts off a shelf and cobbling them together - on a BEV, that causes massive complexity and inefficiency, not to mention underperformance (in both range and acceleration). Musk is famous for saying, "the factory is the product" after being in "production hell" with the Model 3. You can't just slap some generic motors onto a chassis, grab some LiOns, wire it up and call it done. In short, a best-in-class BEV has to be custom / bespoke engineered from the ground up, including computer hardware and software, if it's going to compete; otherwise, yeah, it's just an electric X5.
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But yeah, totally agree, Tesla is well ahead in software integration and implementation on their EVs compared to legacy automakers. |
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