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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.That's a terrible design and extremely dangerous. You need to undo the zipper just to open the door? I was thinking like a Jeep but this solution is a no go for me and I suggest nobody else do it, due to not being able to get out of it in case of an emergency. Now we are back at step one. No full doors until the company redesigns the chassis.
Plus, why buy a $19,900 version when you can buy an $11,900 version? This would be like if Rivian told everyone that even though their pickup costs $74,800 that once production ramps up and they are making lots of them, the price would drop to $44,800. Thus, who would buy one at a 40% markup. Yes the uber rich will at first but to get volume, you need more than them.
So did Arcimoto. Same scenario, different product.
TMW loses the least amount of money, thus could be considered the most profitable.
Perhaps the problem is the definition of target pricing. Seems they pull it out their ear. Nobody knows what the actual MSRP will be until the specs are finalized, off the shelf/custom parts are available, parts supplier partners on board, limited or volume pricing costs, manufacturing costs in general to include the fully tooled up and ready to assemble manufacturing plant,, overhead, and employee and/or robot assembler costs….impossible to meet the target. If their target sets high……….less interest and fewer reservations to indicate market demand…..based on price. I understand BEX doesn’t matter, but I’m still curious if the BEX target price has been mentioned. Affordability matters to most members on this forum to include me.
You can. I do it all of the time.
Yes. That's why you go low and hope that the volume will take off like gangbusters and thus the price will go lower. What the realistic plan is, set a price based on the experience and know how of the group. Then use that price where you will lose money at the beginning but make money once the volume goes up. Not tell everyone the target price in the beginning. The low price is what everyone remembers. Then these companies for some reason think that inflation doesn't exist. Yet it does. They have people that do forecasting and see what 10 years out is going to be.
I blame lots of it on the whole crowdfunding rage that happened for a while. Elio did a great job of it along with many other companies. Elio pretty much ruined it for other companies. Over the top spec sheet for a overly cheap vehicle. When it couldn't be done, the people that were suckered into giving money to that company, then found out down the road, they had been duped. If he would have done that same vehicle with the same spec sheet yet never took a dime from the public, then nobody would be unhappy when it never made it to market.
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