Quoted from Topher5000:I think Tesla's going to be in trouble when BMW, Jaguar & Volvo come out with electric vehicles.
BMW has an electric car. Jaguar will have a 2019. Volvo will follow shortly thereafter. They will all be playing catchup for a while though
"All in, Tesla delivered the best powertrain at the lowest cost," a team of USB analysts lead by Colin Langan said in the first lap of its three-part tear-down series.
The investment bank said its takedown engineers "were crazy about the powertrain, highlighting next-gen, military-grade tech" that appear to be "years ahead of peers."
"The Model 3 appears to have been built with a goal of simplifying the engineering, removing components, and building things as modularly as possible," UBS said.
"The inverter was embedded into the e-motor and gearbox. More impressively, the battery management and charging electronics merged the DC/DC converter, on board charger, and power distribution module into one simple unit."