CGX car nut:
noone1:

Few achievements? Tesla is pretty much responsible for the entire EV movement and the Model 3 just got 350 miles of range. Can't why to see the range on the $200K Mission E.

Stringent emission standards are responsible for the current rush toward electrification, not Tesla’s glowing successes. 


Yeah, because no one on here would have wanted that super hot Mission E in 2012, right? No one could have foreseen the need for EVs in 2012, right? The forum gets a collective hard-on at Mission E news, yet no one gave a shit about EVs in 2012. The Mission E could have existed in 2012, just like the Model S. The technology was there.

The rush to EVs is a reaction to realizing how far behind they all suddenly were and that if Tesla could do it, so could Toyota. Tesla proved to everyone that EVs were viable and very desirable, and then they all shit their pants that someone much bigger than Tesla could do it too.