Al Castro just my be the
The EV1, a $70,000 vehicle which had centuries old lead acid batteries and which has a driving range of less than 50 miles and a battery recharge time measured in hours, not minutes, CAstro idiotically proclaims to have been a leader of the EV movement. Upon which planet does Castro live? As for the insane notion that because Cadillac has not yet released its first BEV somehow annoints Tesla as as the premium EV leader, perhaps Castro might read the paper ocasionaly - if he did he would seee that Tesla has discontinued their two highest selling premium models, the Model S 75D and Model X 75D. Now why did they do that? Well, "premium EV leader Tesla" just got knocked out of the ring in Holland, By Jaguar I Pace, which outsold the Model S by 2 to 1 and theModel X by 4 to 1. And then its sales forced a reduction of Tesla sales in Norway by 40%. And Tesla's position as the claimed "premier EV" is further invalidated by news that the Model S competitor, the Porsche Taycan, has scheduled its first year's production run to exceed that of the Model S (and now vastly exceeds it) and, killing Tesla sales even more completely, has sold out the entire first year's production. Tesla is getting hammered from the bottom to the top by dozens of EVs' almost all of which have equal or superior EV technology. Tesla is a fading automaker. Cadillac is concentrating on their version of the BEV1 , GM's large vehicle electric platform. GM has tons of EV technology talent and their Chevy Bolt exceeded the capabilities of Tesla's twice as expensive vehicles in several ways. It lacked a fast level 3 recharge capability, something that will not be an issue going forward. I fact, GM is on track to have the fastest recharge capability in the world. And when it comes to performance, no engineering expertise is required : just order large electric motors. The performance version of the I Pace will out-acceeraate every Tesla every made,including their upcoming sports car, which Musk foolishly claimed would be the fastest production car. OOps!! Another Musk lie.