They haven't delivered anything yet. They have pre-orders for now that will fill a year of production, but how much of that is people who buy anything new but won't buy again, vs sustainable people like this and so customers will keep coming.

Only time will tell.

My bet is that the vast majority of the cost of the vehicle comes from making the basics, and then they add the features "no one wanted" in order to look good in the showroom, because they are a cheap way to sway dumb people to buy their car over a competitors

Battery production is still the bottleneck, so they want to squeeze out as much value per kwh as they can.

Selling one expensive luxury SUV with a 90kwh battery is a lot more profitable to them than selling two barebones econoboxes with a 45wkh battery pack.

And just to clarify, since this is Lemmy: This is not meant to justify or condone their behavior, just explain it.

Someone in our household smoked our Model 3 mirror backing into the garage and it cost $1k CAD and they came to our house to do it. Didn’t even charge me labour for some reason. It looked very easy to do, but the number of antennas in there was something else.

Ha! I got my car clipped like that. It's an old car, so I just duck taped it back on. Lol. I'm not paying, claiming, or making someone else pay that kinda money for something so stupid.