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Imagine a car company selling the same model and style of car for over 10 years. That's almost every car in their line up except for the goofy rust box. There is no innovation in Tesla.
Remember when Tesla was an exciting and emergent name in energy and power systems? Tesla solar tiles made solar look incredible. What has Tesla done lately to drive down costs or increase value? Nothing. They recently came out with the 3rd iteration of their on-site battery and it is a lateral move from their earlier models. There is no long term growth or money put into research. There is no innovation at Tesla.
Nothing wrong with that if you do it right. The original air cooled VW Beetle sold and sold and sold for years.
The original Beetle was a very cheap car being sold at a time when no one else was making such vehicles. Sales tanked once competition showed up. The problem is that Tesla is seeing competition now.
Also, Teslas aren't cheap. So the market for them is much smaller.
They made the Beetle from 1938 to 2003. Pretty sure other people were making similar vehicles during that time span. They only stopped making it because it could no longer meet environmental exhaust requirements in most countries (air cooled).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle
Not who originally commented but you said the original air cooled beatle and then proceeded to to say 1938-2003 which is it. The OG or all of them?
The beetle was made until 2003. The new beetle, a different car, started production in 1997. It was manufactured side by side with the original beetle.
Not the other commenter, but that's the timeframe for the OG air cooled design which continued to be manufactured until 2003 in Mexico. The New Beetle launched in 1998, was redesigned again in 2011 as the Beetle, and then ended production in 2019.
It was well past its prime by the 1970s. VW would've ended production long before 2003 if it wasn't seen as an iconic vehicle.