luckily they also seem to be ahead of this trend by developing the driverless taxi fleet capability in their cars. it seems they’re actively counting on and accelerating this trend.
cost of ownership will also go down commensurately since owners will be able to send out their cars to be used as autonomous taxis while not needed, thus earning money and offsetting the cost. potentially paying back the cost.
also given their position in grid level storage they have the ability to recycle the battery of the car for grid storage, thus lowering the long term battery cost even more.
this expertise will probably lead to greater functionality soon: i.e. using idle cars charging in their garages as powerwalls / distributed grid level storage, giving owners a piece of the profits.
It seems that you have an assumption that customers will pay as much money for cars in ten years as they are doing now.
I think that’s likely that driverless cars will result in less people owning cars and thus less cars needing to be produced.
luckily they also seem to be ahead of this trend by developing the driverless taxi fleet capability in their cars. it seems they’re actively counting on and accelerating this trend.
cost of ownership will also go down commensurately since owners will be able to send out their cars to be used as autonomous taxis while not needed, thus earning money and offsetting the cost. potentially paying back the cost.
also given their position in grid level storage they have the ability to recycle the battery of the car for grid storage, thus lowering the long term battery cost even more.
this expertise will probably lead to greater functionality soon: i.e. using idle cars charging in their garages as powerwalls / distributed grid level storage, giving owners a piece of the profits.