A New Tesla Model 3 Killer 

Thanks Lee. Think you’ve hit the nail on the head here, and found myself giggling away at the 4D comment. I think you’re absolutely correct in your assessment of a certain clique of Tesla appreciators 😂👍

I agree with the speculation on the price of the CLA, it will be much more expensive with model3. I think it will be targeting a different audience that appreciates a different style of design and more traditional luxury. It is good to have more choices for the consumer, but it most certainly will not be a model 3 killer.

Great video thanks for being balanced and thoughtful

Totally agree with your analysis. But also great to know that legacy are still trying to do something. This is healthy 👌

You are very objective and rational. My favourite you tuber. Keep up the great work.

One of your most fun videos yet. Just sardonic enough.

It’s all about the tech

A medical refrigerator from the future, I'm going to steal that one. 🤣😂

I tell you what, these "Tesla Killers" are killing me with laughter. Let's just wait to see if this one makes it off the drawing board to production. In the meantime, how do you like the numbers out of China for last month!? Thanks TE.

Great pod!

Thanks!

Nicely done.

Great take on this, let's hope the stock stays low so i can get more.

The claimed range won’t be anywhere that in real life and the price will be huge, but you do have to give it to Mercedes, it’s a great looking concept and gives them a headline to shout about and bandy around the Tesla bear press who of course will claim it’s the end of Tesla. We all know the reality is, as Lee says, this concept will never see production in any volume or price competitiveness with Tesla. It’s actually a good thing if other makers make better cars, expanding the EV market choice (well for the luxury end).

Good stuff, Batman

A German car always goes up in price by 10-20k when you add the extras you actually need.

Hi Lee, where do you think is growth for 2024 come from. Certainly we going to see some extra units of CT. ( 100 - 200 thousands ) .Potentially some extra units ofmodel 3 . Hopefully some extra Y ( if there is access to new CATL batteries)How much CAGR do you expect ?

Lucid's relatively tiny differential appeared to be very clever and appropriate, wonder if Tesla will adopt similar. (Munro naturally) Diff on high speed side of gearbox, much higher RPMs traded for greatly reduced torque, seems to make sense. (realize it's small part of Lucid engineering exceptionalism, efficiency, just interesting and impressive)

I thought it was a clever title for New Model 3 killing old 3. I was doing final checks on my premises back in early 2019, via tuning into the shorties, they were literally emotionally *hysterical,*... "If this is all you boys got I'm betting big against you." ...so I did.

Lee, another interesting video. Tesla tend not to produce concept models per se. Their model reveals tend to be very close to what's actually delivered to customers, albeit from product reveal to production can be a few years (Cybertruck). With regards Elon and 4D chess, I'm minded of the oft quoted quote, wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin; "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." being adaptable to change is Tesla and Elon's differentiator. P.S. are you still intending to update your Tesla Profits & revenue webpages?

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Tesla... a ICE-killer😎👍

didn’t Tesla say it was 50% new parts?

I think it is good to give credit to mercedes where it is due. From media covering this CLA concept, they say mercedes is targeting very good energy efficiency with this car, about 12kwh per 100km.

About ADs Tesla must do branding ADs not product ones. that will give ability to ask 10% more for a car. Also they must possibly introduce different brands. As car is product of greater customer evolvement and customer do research, but still. When doing product ads current media space can counter it and turns it negative. It is harder to turn negative branding ADs and when you order ADs then fud goes away - since you are potential customer.

The BMW i4 went from 460miles of range on the announcement to 250ish miles when it went on sale.😂😂 Mercedes is usually extremely “optimistic “ when they announce.

The "competition" is getting desperate.

Mercedes have been doing some interesting research in recaptured energy from the cars body motion using inductive suspension. It will be interesting to see what everyone else comes up with that tesla hasn't considered.

If you slapped a BMW or Mercedes badge on a Tesla some people would think it’s the best car in the world.

Like any Mercedes wait for used price. Wait 1 and half years and you get it half price 👍👍

Mercedes is not at all after Tesla to kill whatever Tesla... This is just what TSLAQ makes of it, and its hillarious!

Thank you for calling out the delusional Tesla fans.

I have a Merc CL315, has a massive exterior but can only sit 4, really a bit waste of space.

Tesla Killer - heard it all before !!

Uh huh, and the Toyota Corolla Cross was also called a Tesla Killer 😏

The big difference between legacy and Tesla with EVs is still volume. Legacy are not ready to produce any of their EVs at the sort of scale that Tesla is. This indicates to me that they have a different view of future demand than Tesla does. With many markets now at over 10% of new cars sold being EV we are on track for those markets to get to 80% by 2031 or sooner if adoption accelerates.

They definitely should do some advertising. Leaving the narrative and story to your competitors is never a good idea in the long run. And he said they should try some, so now he have to.

Until 2018 the German automakers were hiring Grohman Automation Engineering for a lot of their production engineering, and then Tesla bought Grohman. This was a huge leap ahead for Tesla's production engineering, and a huge drop in the German production engineering, a drop they seem not to have recovered from. This is a big part of why the Germans are unable to compete on price by making efficient automated EV production. And sure, Musk and Tesla make mistakes, but two of their huge advantages are their willingness to make mistakes, sometimes they try multiple ways to achieve things at the same time to see which actually works better, and then their ability to admit and fix mistakes at lightning speed.

Definitely agree with Tesla's take on the pointlessness of these kinds of "production" concept cars other than a marketing gimmick. sigh

All they have is a rendering. Let’s see what actually comes out of production.

Great summary of Tesla bear mentality. they are expecting legacy auto to catch up instead of fail

I have said that Tesla's biggest weakness is their batteries, they don't make them. And when one is competing with battery companies like CATL and BYD, whom keep moving the goalposts, and have HUGE manufacturing capabilities, not to mention sources of lithium, well, good luck Tesla on that one. Chemistry is a whole different ballgame than the mechanics of making a car out of metal. One can reduce the costs of manufacture as much as is possible, but if that does not include the most expensive part, the battery, well there is still a lot of weakness there, isn't there? That includes the grid batteries as well.

About one thing Elon Musk is absolutely right.. "Concepts are EASY, (mass) production is HARD!... " IF Mercedes comes out with a productions version, it will be, as always, a hugely watered down version of the concept. Forget about the fancy seats, the excessive lighting, fancy grill and headlights etc.... But no one will remember the concept when the production version comes out in about 5 years or so... IF Mercedes is still around at that time, they could have gone bankrupt before that, when sales of their ICE cars has collapsed completely.

You've driven premium vehicles. Presumably you wanted the high performance (and not the high price tag). What we have now is a company making the highest performance at high quality for a reasonable price. So now, premium somehow has to be made to mean lower performance (and range and worse handling and slower charging etc).

I see too many Tesla killers since 2010 , still is the brand that sells more cars in the world . Get focused on the background noise and you ll leave a lot of money on the table .

If Merz EQA can sell as comparable price to Model3 ,then i might consider buying, else don't simply define it as Tesla killer😂😂

This is pure speculation.

Can we have categories of bulls? I'm bullish on Tesla, but Elon makes mistakes. The stalk removal in the new M3 for Europe is an awful decision.

The tsla-$Q boys keep on forgetting that Elon and team make the machines that make the cars and that why Moore’s Law & Wright's Law are working overtime at $TSLA! That's also why they're crushing the competition for the past decade and hopefully in the coming decades!

concept cars make me laugh. I had a "dream machines: reality ripping rides" book printed in 2009. It was full of wild futuristic designs by every name brand. Somehow, aptera accidentally slipped into that book, their oldest prototype, ye olde snow white one with 125 miles of range. It was the only one with a stated range (or a real photograph) in the entire book. Since 2009, Aptera has died, gone to hell, punched the devil in the face, and risen from the grave, pulsating with main character energy. and every other design in that book was forgotten by even its own digital artist by the time his or her head hit the pillow at the end of that day. What a silly stupid game. Mercedes posting a concept image is less credible than BP making a climate pledge. Who is it for? Just for kids who haven't yet experienced the particular prank of concept cars?

Yeah good luck with making any profit on that concept vehicle, even if they sold it for 70k they would barely break even. When will these Tesla haters run out of hate? Must be exhausting being wrong for decades.

If you say something is a “fill in the brand name-killer” you have already lost. Literally 0 cases of this happening in any industry.

I 100% agree Tesla manufacturing is still underrated or overlooked by many critics and investment "experts". The competition has been coming for years and there are times when competition does seem to offer some aspects that are better than Tesla, but when you pull together the whole picture, Tesla is hard to beat in every category they compete in. I think the Hyundai Group has brought some great EV models to market, but they are still dealing with legacy dealership issues that often makes buying the cars a pain or filled with extra costs, they are not as good with the software side of things, and no doubt their costs to build is much higher, and the tax credits thing is an issue as well. Seeing the Mercedes EV is exciting, but reality is likely to be much different. I think Volvo might have a better threat to Tesla than Mercedes. Right now, Tesla is the biggest threat to Tesla. As their volume of sales and production reach new heights, it makes changes harder to do and will keep stress on their teams to keep hitting ever growing goals. While so many companies seem to be setting low goals or backing off on goals, Tesla has the EV go pedal pressed all the way down and is going for it. I find it interesting how many builders cannot turn a profit and seem to be backing off when in reality Tesla was taking big losses until they finally hit the winning formula. Seeing VW invest into a partnership with Xpeng feels like yet another scramble as they cannot get their EV game working how it needs to be working so they have a strong future. Tesla killers are going to come from China and Tesla is already battling it out in China with them and doing fine. If Musk can keep from making more comments to piss of people about some political or social issue, Tesla will just keep rocketing up. I fear Musk making some insane racist comment or do some other thing that just causes a massive backlash against Tesla more than I do Tesla competition.

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One can achieve any amount of range with a big enough battery. It's all meaningless.

"TESLA KILLERRRRR"😂 FOR 5 Years the same BS! Eqc, iPace, id3, id4, id5, Enyaq, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nice a concept car beat a car that is already on the market…. What a perdition

looks like a joke