<story><title>Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range</title><url>https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1551713024171548672</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>A year ago, I would have chosen a new Tesla, hands down (disclosure: I am probably not gonna actually &lt;i&gt;buy&lt;/i&gt; an EV for as many years as I can eke out of my trusty Subie).&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, I have chatted with &lt;i&gt;numerous&lt;/i&gt; folks that have purchased alternative EVs.&lt;p&gt;The Tesla owners still seem the giddiest (There&amp;#x27;s a lot of &amp;#x27;em around here), but I have not heard one ounce of buyer&amp;#x27;s remorse from any of the other brands.&lt;p&gt;The one that brought the Rivian, is every bit as giddy as any Tesla owner I know.&lt;p&gt;I think that Tesla has managed to establish itself, and will last, but the free ride is over.</text></item><item><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll spare the moral judgements against Tesla for this:&lt;p&gt;The real moral of the story here is that if your business plan and practices is creating occasional weird issues and huge cognitive dissonance in your customers, it&amp;#x27;s the wrong business plan.  Also... the number of people this applies to is likely so low that Tesla really screwed up by not erring on the side of the customer.  (They didn&amp;#x27;t buy from Tesla, but they&amp;#x27;re still a customer buying servicing from them.)  If the bad publicity alone causes even a tiny fraction of the population to choose another manufacturer, the&amp;#x27;ve lost their $4,500 and then some.&lt;p&gt;Harmony is a really underrated concept.  When things are harmonious, you don&amp;#x27;t have problems like this, and you can still make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>panopticon</author><text>I bought an EV earlier this year. I ended up with a LR Model 3 because the dealership model really sucks still. I called Hyundai and VW dealerships in the tri-state area around me, and none of them could say when I&amp;#x27;d be able to actually get a car. Instead I went to Tesla&amp;#x27;s website, placed an order, and got an ETA. Super simple; loved that experience.&lt;p&gt;If it weren&amp;#x27;t for the crappy dealership model I probably would have bought the Hyundai Ioniq instead.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range</title><url>https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1551713024171548672</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>A year ago, I would have chosen a new Tesla, hands down (disclosure: I am probably not gonna actually &lt;i&gt;buy&lt;/i&gt; an EV for as many years as I can eke out of my trusty Subie).&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, I have chatted with &lt;i&gt;numerous&lt;/i&gt; folks that have purchased alternative EVs.&lt;p&gt;The Tesla owners still seem the giddiest (There&amp;#x27;s a lot of &amp;#x27;em around here), but I have not heard one ounce of buyer&amp;#x27;s remorse from any of the other brands.&lt;p&gt;The one that brought the Rivian, is every bit as giddy as any Tesla owner I know.&lt;p&gt;I think that Tesla has managed to establish itself, and will last, but the free ride is over.</text></item><item><author>Enginerrrd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll spare the moral judgements against Tesla for this:&lt;p&gt;The real moral of the story here is that if your business plan and practices is creating occasional weird issues and huge cognitive dissonance in your customers, it&amp;#x27;s the wrong business plan.  Also... the number of people this applies to is likely so low that Tesla really screwed up by not erring on the side of the customer.  (They didn&amp;#x27;t buy from Tesla, but they&amp;#x27;re still a customer buying servicing from them.)  If the bad publicity alone causes even a tiny fraction of the population to choose another manufacturer, the&amp;#x27;ve lost their $4,500 and then some.&lt;p&gt;Harmony is a really underrated concept.  When things are harmonious, you don&amp;#x27;t have problems like this, and you can still make money.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skykooler</author><text>Bit of buyer&amp;#x27;s remorse from a Nissan Leaf now that most fast-charging stations don&amp;#x27;t support CHAdeMO.</text></comment>