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I can't figure out if I am more surprised that the Nautilus is still on the market, or that they actually spent money to redesign it.
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Buick News: Buick adds a coupe shaped Envista crossover to the lineup
smk4565 replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Buick
I don't think they need AWD, not everyone does, and they went for price and simplicity of trim levels and single power train, which is how you keep cost down. Buyers over estimate the need for AWD, just like they over estimate the need for 300+ mile EV's when they only drive 25 miles a day. This actually undercuts the Encore by $3,000, which I am not sure why that old Encore is even around still, but in that regard this should sell because it looks better than the other 2 small Buick SUVs and it is the cheapest Buick SUV. -
Buick News: Buick adds a coupe shaped Envista crossover to the lineup
smk4565 replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Buick
The price is attractive, it is pretty cheap, if you can live with the weak power train and no AWD. Which the Kia Seltos has AWD and a 1.6 turbo optional. The Corolla Cross has more power too. But if you want crossover coupe, here you go. -
That’s overkill of plastic crap.
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In your own example the cheapest Mach-E in 2021 was $42k, right now it is $50k with half the Tax credit amount. Thus the price went up. The cheapest Model Y in 2022 was $65,990 with no tax credit, now the cheapest Model Y is $49,990 with a $7500 credit (if the buyer qualifies of course) dropping it to $42,490. It is $23k less at a time when every other car has rising prices. Once you factor in gasoline and maintenance it is probably cheaper to buy a Model Y than most midsize ICE SUVs.
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The cheapest Mach-E you can order is the California Route 1 at $57k. I did search Shults Ford who has 2 in stock, 1 Select at $50,535 and 2022 Premium at $58,815. And that is assuming they sell at msrp which I think they do but some dealers still mark up. They are in similar price points before tax credit but the big difference is Tesla makes money and Ford is losing money on every EV they sell. Tesla can afford to cut prices because they have shredded manufacturing cost so much. Ford can’t afford to do that, probably why the F150 Lightning price is up 50% since launch and still not profitable. And they could get away with that since there aren’t other EV pick ups except the high dollar Rivian. when the Ram, Chevy, Cybertruck hit hit market there is going to be competition on price.
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How are they ramping up if they sold less cars? Ford, Hyundai and Kia all said they would produce more EVs in 2023 than in 2022, yet we see sales down 8% on Ioniq 5, down 19% on Mach-E, down 36% on EV6 in the US, but the EV6 is down in Europe too. Tesla 3/Y sales globally were up 44% in Q1 of 2023 and set a record for their best quarter ever. These legacy OEMs have been saying for years they are ramping up, but they aren’t actually doing it. Tesla is going to sell over 1 million Model Y this year, so Ford should be setting a goal of 1 million Mach-E if they want to be on par with Tesla. And same with Kia or Hyundai or Chevy Equinox EV, etc.
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The Model Y comparable trim to comparable trim is cheaper than the Mach-E and has a $7500 tax credit vs $3750 that the Mach-E gets starting April 18th. And the Model Y is faster with more range. Probably why the Model Y outsold the Mach-E nearly 20 to 1 last quarter. Let's look at the Ford sales chart: Down 19.7% in Q1. And this was their Tesla killer? And then there is the Kia EV6 down 36% for the year, 69% drop last month. And Hyundai Ioniq 5 down 8% this year, down 22% last month as they trend downward like Kia. These bozos are what Tesla is supposed to be worried about?
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2022 Kia EV6 $41,400 2023 Kia EV6 $48,700 ( and lost $7500 tax credit) 2021 Mustang Mach-E $42,895 2023 Muatang Mach-E $45,995 And keep in mind you can’t order the base Mach-E so the lowest cost is $57,995 and the tax credit drops to $3750 on April 18th compared to $7500 last year. 2022 F150 Lightning $39,974 2023 F150 Lightning $59,974 And Kia and Ford are losing money on those EV’s so they keep jacking the price up. With the tax credit factored in a Kia EV6 is $14,000 more than a year ago, the F150 Lightning is $20,000 more, the Mach-E if you could order the base model is $6850 more. The Model Y Long Range price is $13,000 lower than last year plus $7500 tax credit so $20,500 cheaper than a year ago and there is a standard Model Y now available that is $3,000 less than the Long Range that you couldn’t get before. A Tesla is now cheaper than a Ford or Kia, game over, American car brand back on top. USA! USA!
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Tesla just cut prices again, $1,000 to $5,000 depending on model. The other guys are raising prices, pretty predictable how this will turn out.
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Actually Mercedes-Benz hit 6,000 Euro per unit in 2022: 14,809,000000 Euros in net profit Sold 2,456,063 units 6,029 Euros per unit.
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By manufacturer, Tesla is #1 at $9,000 per car, Mercedes-Benz is 2nd at $5,000, BMW just behind that. Toyota, GM, Ford, Honda, Hyundai/Kia, VW are all under $2k per car. That is counting Porsche as part of Volkswagen. On an individual brand basis, Ferrari would be #1 they make like $95,000 profit per car, then Rolls, Bentley, Porsche are all way up there based on brand. But by corporation, Tesla is 5 times higher than the other volume corporations and double Mercedes-Benz who is more similar size in volume to them.
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Tesla can still cut prices by $5,000 per car, and have better margins per can than anyone but Mercedes and that would stoke more demand. Also Tesla only has 4 models, vs most of the companies ahead of them in sales have 20-30 models. The future growth comes from new models.
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It is going to be real heavy and real expensive. This goes to a general problem with EV's in every buying battery on the consumer's part. Or the car maker over selling battery. Many gasoline cars have a 300 mile range, no one cares because there are gas stations everywhere. If there was a larger public charge network, and you could charge at home, a 200 mile battery would be plenty for probably about 95% of people. The dept of energy has a 2022 estimate of $153 per kWh (at scale of at least 100,000 units per year). So if we use that number the Ram REV battery is $35,037 at Stellantis cost, the mark up to dealer, mark up to consumer, at $40,000 in msrp for just the battery, while an average Ram without a battery is $50-60k, a top trip $75k? (not a TRX). Now we are talking a $100-115,000 truck, if the ICE truck goes away, who can afford that? You aren't selling 500,000 units a year. So they need a Ram REV with a 100 kWh battery (in addition to 168 and 229) that is a $15,000 pack and you have $20,000 in cost out right there. And everyone needed to get cell prices under $100 per kWh to start to get these EV's more affordable. GM also had a bad Q1 in 2022. But GM did beat Toyota in Q1, so it was a good quarter for GM.
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Model 3/Y sales are up nearly 40% in Q1 and those have been around like 5 years. Why aren't Chevrolet or Toyota up 40%? The demand for Tesla I would imagine is 10 times that for Chevy or Toyota. Although I agree that the S/X really need an update, and the 3/Y could use a refresh, maybe even just adding a little screen for speedometer behind the steering wheel. But Tesla cars don't look stale because they don't load them up with plastic body cladding, badges, 2 tone paint, door moldings, etc that all age poorly and they don't have to worry about grille openings and all the bumper plastic that tends to lead to dated styling because the whole car is just body color.
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I can agree on the Elon point, but the Tesla brand name is quite strong. With $0 advertising spend they keep gaining in sales as fast as they can build them and by far have the best profit per car. Tesla is in really good position on the demand side, and they are ramping up the supply side quite nicely also. I don't know if GM is the sleeping giant, this is the company that let Honda and Toyota walk all over them in the 80s, let the Germans and Japanese luxury brands walk all over them in the 90s, went bankrupt in the 2000s, gave up on minivans, killed 5 brands in the 2000s, sold their European operations in the 2010s (which PSA turned profitable in a heartbeat), killed off all Buick sedans in the 2010s (maybe into 2020s), killed off Spark, Sonic, Volt, Cruze, Impala, and soon Camaro in the 2020s. Look at their market share, 50% to 16-18% since 2016, they were 17% last year. I wouldn't bank on them beating Tesla, they haven't been able to beat much of anyone else. If anything once Tesla hits lower price points and more segments, GM will start bleeding more market share. I think GM has a good plan doing EV versions of existing products like Equinox, Blazer, Silverado, etc, it keeps it familiar and you aren't inventing new segments, just flipping what you have now to EV. But that probably just keeps existing base, and it is a slow ramp upend I don't see them attracting a ton of new business with it. The Model 3 base loses the tax credit, but I imagine Tesla will work on that, or have the new dual motor long range available this supper that they'll get to qualify for it. The Mach-E is losing 50% of its tax credit on April 18th, there will be many that get reduced credits, not just Tesla.
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That's gone, the GLA is $38,650 with destination. That is the cheapest vehicle and that is no options, no all wheel drive.
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They can expand Shanghai, Austin and Berlin, there is room for more capacity at all, Cybertruck in Austin of course. Those 3 factories plus California seems like 2.5 million is very doable. Mexico next and then after that might be Canada for a future plant. They seem pretty intent on at least 10 million capacity by 2030. I am just making up 25,000, maybe it is more but look at sales of Grand Wagoneer, Escalade, S-class etc. you don’t sell a lot of $100,000 vehicles no matter what it is. And even if these are $80,000, that is still beyond the price of current Ram 1500s. GM sold 2 Hummer EV’s last quarter, true stat. Even if Ram has demand, how much capacity will they have. Mach-E is in year 3 and on pace for 22,000 sales this year.
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Some of those EV’s have equipment that the base ICE cars don’t. But I would say at least 10% cuts, maybe 20%. The AMG electric cars might compete out cheaper than the ICE version, if they build in Alabama they might get tax credits too. So if they can cut msrp 10% and then get some tax credit money they get close enough to swap the whole brand to EV without really changing their overall pricing.
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Mercedes doesn’t build $30,000 vehicles, but Chevy, Hyundai and Ford do. Mercedes EV’s need about a 10% price cut to be right in line with Mercedes ICE pricing, the EQS is actually cheaper than an S-class but it isn’t as good a car either. I don’t see Mercedes growing much but they will survive. In 10 years they’ll probably be about 2 million units a year, whereas I think some car companies either won’t be here or will have 25% or half their current size. And bold prediction, no legacy OEM ever passes Tesla in EV sales.
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Tesla us 1.8 million capacity now, they can expand Austin and Berlin by another 250k units each, China can expand. That’s 2.5 million next year, then Mexico is w million united for 2025 and they are at 4.5 million units which beats Honda, especially as Honda sales fall when Tesla brings a lower priced model. If it isn’t in 2025 then it is 2026 for sure. Agree, they can’t scale fast enough, even if the Ram REV was $40,000, they could only sell like 25,000 a year probably, which is why it will be a $100k+ truck because they only need 25,000 buyers. And legacy auto is still dumping money into ICE cars and improving ICE plants, they don’t really have the money to put 100% in EV.
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They are way behind, but using advertising dollars on a CGI or clay model of a concept car that is way far from production, vs using your advertising on Inegras or RDX's that you can sell today makes no sense. This isn't even close to proaction, yet was getting advertising spend 6 months ago. So deep down they know ICE is dead and Tesla will pass Honda in 2025 I bet. As far as the Ram REV goes, it looks like they are positioning this as a $100k luxury truck, when they need a volume $50k truck. Maybe that will follow, but they better get it going fast or the Cybertruck will take all Ram's sales too, because Tesla will have scale.
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I suppose but the legacy OEM's have been showing and advertising EV's to make it look like they have EV's even if they don't. Acura was running ads last NFL season for the electric SUV that is basically just a CGI mock up and I imagine is still 2 years away. All these companies advertise EV's but then they don't have EV's at the dealer and people just buy a Tesla. Tesla is a tough competitor as it is, even harder to beat if Honda, GM, Ford, etc do the advertising for them.
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I feel like 2025 is a long way off and a lot can change or it can get delayed. Funny how auto makers used to never talk future product, now they have no problem talking about 2025 models, probably some will talk about their 2026 EV's, Chevy spend all last year advertising the Equinox EV 18 months before it even went on sale. Tesla has changed how they do business.
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Kia News: Kia Reveals Full Details on EV9, Reshaping SUV User Experience
smk4565 replied to G. David Felt's topic in Kia
The drag coefficient difference on those 2 cars is .02 and the S-class is more aerodynamic than a Prius or Tesla Model 3. The jelly bean isn't needed, they already had a good looking, aerodynamic car, just make it electric, and that car is long as hell, lots of space to put batteries laying flat. Have to get that tax credit.
