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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Company that put gas engines in Teslas goes bankrupt owing $37 million - elektrek.co (electrek.co)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Now, I'm not saying that it's a dumber idea than putting rocket thrusters on a car...

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well duh. Who on Earth was going to pay stupid money to buy a car from the most (in)famously overpriced electric car brand just to put an ICE in there??

It'd genuinely be like buying an IPhone just to immediately put Android on it. Like it defies the premise of buying the thing in the first place.

People who like ICE cars would surely just buy a fancy ICE car for that price.
People who like electric cars wouldn't be putting an ICE in there in the first place, and would also probably just buy a better electric for that price.
And the people specifically into Teslas wouldn't want to rip their brand new car apart to install an ICE, because part of the brand of Tesla IS the electrification.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

You say that, but I've seen stupider things work on stupid people.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

According the their original article apparently the plan wasn't to pay for a full price car then do an expensive modification - but was supposed to be cheaper to manufacturer them that way in the first place.

Not sure wtf they were thinking, since that's now how the real world works. Like Tesla would ever be like "Oh here you go, here's a partially finished car from our assembly line. Go ahead and do what you want with it and resell it."

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Many manufacturers sell chassises to other companies to make heavy modifications, such as Coach builders