Have you seen it? In 5 years Ford is going to present a driverless car. What do you think if it will be able to become a strong competitor to Tesla? P.S. To be honest, I doubt it.
Yes, that is quite impressive. For Ford or anyone else.
Will they be a strong competitor, Yes and No. If / When they come out with one, the people loyal to Ford will consider an electric car over Tesla because Ford has been around for 100+ years, they have dealerships everywhere and people feel more confident buying from Ford as opposed to a new guy on the block. Ford has an established reputation, Tesla/Musk is building his.
BMW has an electric car, so does Mercedes.
GM's Chevrolet Volt has been doing well.
Toyota, Kia, Hyundai, Nissan, Audi, Fiat.......they all have electric cars too.
Tesla gets a lot of attention because of Musk and his Space X rocket company.
He was the first on the block with his electric cars and if it was not for him, the other auto manufacturers would not be as far along with their research on electric, driver-less cars.
He gets major credit for this. Tesla has shaken up the auto industry like Henry Ford did with the assembly line and Preston Tucker did with his innovations, even though his company never got off the ground.
But, Tesla does not make money and the major manufacturers (GM, Ford, BMW,Toyota,Honda)
have lots of money, unused manufacturing facilities and lots of engineers. Tesla is going to have to offer a superior, unique product affordable for the middle class if he wants to survive. And it has to make money. Otherwise, Tesla is going to get left in the dust by the established auto manufacturers.
I hope he survives, but he needs to start making $.
.....but not an American company....
