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> Yes, right now you can't get the less-expensive Teslas, but eventually you will be able to.

They seem to be in no rush to make it, but seem to be living with the PR that it somehow exists already. That people can make a statement like "why get a Bolt when I can get a M3 for around the same price" is beyond belief to me, considering there is no available configuration of the Model 3 that is anywhere close to $36k.

The M3 is a luxury class vehicle in all actually-existing configurations. The Bolt is available at the price you state _now_.

It's just GM seems entirely unwilling to market and sell it in volume.



Does GM actually make a profit on the Bolt? Or is it a sort of foot-in-the-door car meant to increase mindshare? I ran a search and found this:

https://www.inverse.com/article/32239-why-gm-loses-money-che...

It makes sense that a huge car company would be able to take a loss on an electric vehicle that they don't advertise much but which, by slowly accumulating in the market, convinces people that "GM can build affordable and good electric cars" so that when they do actually market a car they make money on, people will be less skeptical. However, according to this hypothesis, GM doesn't have a serious technical advantage over Tesla - they just have a fatter stack of cash. But sometimes that's enough.


Why rush to get the cheap one out the door when you can still saturate your production capacity selling more expensive ones?

Spending an extra ~25% for a much, much better product isn’t outrageous.




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