I'm sure Tesla will also have EVs as good as Tesla for half the price by 2020.<p>They'll also have a vastly improved super charger network, a mature software ecosystem, a mature direct sales/servicing model, and whatever else they dream up like Powerwall and other systems that can potentially add value to the whole. VW will just be scratching the surface by 2020 while Tesla will likely continue sprinting ahead.
I wish. I'd pay a lot if someone would make a good e-version of a "boring" car like a Golf. No huge center-mounted display, no app store, no forced remote updates, no DRM locking me out of reparing my own car. If they keep the sensors for partially automated driving as a better cruise control, I'm fine with that.<p>Unfortunately, the current e-Golf is just a regular Golf poorly converted to electric, way too expensive and with not enough range.
It is funny when competitors mention:<p>"We will take a currently winning product X and deliver 2X by some future date Y."<p>Imagine if competitors actually said:<p>"We will <i>first</i> catch up to X by some date before Y. <i>Then</i> we will hit 2X by Y".
At first I thought this is an unusually short news article.<p>Took me a while to figure out that scrolling on this page is broken unless you enable javascript.<p>Looks like the reason is that it needs Googles amp code to function.<p>It's hillarious that Google gets away bloating the web with crap and selling us that as a way to make it more lightweight.<p>Flagging it for this reason. I think we should not support AMP here on HN.
Does anyone else think traditional manufacturers will initially sell their EV's at a loss or low profit margin to get a bigger foothold in the market, being propped up by their sales of diesel/petrol cars.
VW has enough problems with the quality of their ICE vehicles. They don't need to brag about quality of the relatively new electric vehicles.<p>If VWs electric vehicles really are as good as Tesla's by 2020, it will be more a condemnation of Tesla than praise for VW.
I can’t speak for others, but personally I wouldn’t entertain the purchase of a VW or anything from the VW Group after the dieselgate fiasco - regardless of whether it’s electric or not.