Tesla and BMW collaboration on "Model A"

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Tesla has been a collaborator since day 1. Think Lotus and Toyota... The BMW Tesla collaboration rumor has been around forever; this is nothing new.
It looks like the low priced Tesla x BMW vehicle may be on the way.
This goal is to manufacture a car that costs half to make than a Model 3.

Overnight, an unofficial Tesla account suggested there was a Tesla x BMW model on the way and it would be “an alternative to the likes of the Volkswagen ID.3 and MG4”.
“The car that changes everything”.

There's more to the collaboration.
It is likely Tesla will share its battery technology with the German automaker to improve the range of BMW EVs.
 
JeffKeryk said:
There's more to the collaboration.
It is likely Tesla will share its battery technology with the German automaker to improve the range of BMW EVs.
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Unlike many businesses, Tesla appears to be willing to invite competitors behind the scenes to utilize their patented information. BMW may be the first company to get that opportunity.
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Supposedly Toyota has done similar, letting anyone go through their assembly line and see "the Toyota way". But I think they charged for Ford(?) to use their hybrid tech (why not?). Anyhow. Must mean Tesla is joining the big leagues now. What's the current chart of ownership look like, across the big OEM's? It seems if you aren't one of the big (3 or 5 or so), then odds are, someone else owns a minority stake of you. If are part of the big ones, odds are you do side projects with the competition (didn't Chevy and Ford both work on a RWD 10 speed automatic, for a bit?).

Tin foil hat time: this is how Musk can get out of the car biz, sell off or partner enough of it, then he can focus on where the real money is: social media. :LOL:
 
Can't wait for the Tesla x Morgan collab to really excite the people that got their panties in a bunch over the wood whatever it was that Tesla was using.

JeffKeryk said:
This goal is to manufacture a car that costs half to make than a Model 3.
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I have to admit that I'd definitely consider a very cheap "appliance" EV if the range were 150-200 miles. Hell, give me a base model with manual windows and door locks for all I care. I think that'd be cool, honestly.
 
JRed said:
I have to admit that I'd definitely consider a very cheap "appliance" EV if the range were 150-200 miles. Hell, give me a base model with manual windows and door locks for all I care. I think that'd be cool, honestly.
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It'd meet my needs... and sell like a lead balloon. All the car enthusiasts insist they'd buy stickshift station wagons, all day long--except they don't. The ones that would, rarely buy 'em new it seems.
 
supton said:
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Tin foil hat time: this is how Musk can get out of the car biz, sell off or partner enough of it, then he can focus on where the real money is: social media. :LOL:
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Musk is an employee of Tesla. Hired by the Board, he can be fired at anytime. Though granted he holds 20% of the common stock so that carries a heck of a lot of weight with the company. ;)
 
BMW is switching from prismatic cells to 46mm cylindrical cells for the NK. But not from Panasonic or Tesla.

If there was to be a true collaboration, not just some random bits of news some shop owner came across and put up on his shop's site, perhaps they could get together and actually build their respective vaporware supercars.

And if Tesla wanted input on brakes, the place it should target is actually a few hundred km to the west. The other place has been above average, but BBKs were still once quite popular for the track crowd.
 
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