With a hobbled battery, 40 kW CHAdeMO in urban areas but no long trip infrastructure ?jlsoaz said:in my view, Nissan should have introduced a competitive long-range Infiniti BEV in the early 2010s.
That does not even pass the sniff test. I've said this before, and I will here: when average consumers think a company needs their strategic advice, that company is in deep doodoo. And by the time you and I know what they did wrong, so does everybody else, including the company.
It is easy now to say that every company should have done a Tesla, but it was not so long ago that 'common wisdom' was positive that Tesla was weeks away from fading into the sunset. All these giants of prophecy lacked vision, but they were not wrong in realizing that Tesla took on a huge gamble. Musk has said the same many times. I bought my Tesla because it is an outstanding EV that let me go ICE free, and to support the Tesla vision. And we should not kid ourselves -- the Tesla vision *needed* support from consumers willing to take on some degree of risk in buying the car.
And that brings up another difference between Tesla and LEAF buyers, in a very broad stroke kind of way: Tesla owners support a vision. I can see how that can annoy people fixated on rationalizing their fiat by monthly payment approach to life.