I can't believe they weren't a total complete absolute bigly success.

Strange, my company that turns smartphones into VHS machines is doing fantastic.

FWIW, it was a janky range extender rather than a full combustion drivetrain. Effectively turning the Model 3 into a plug-in (series) hybrid.

It's not the worst idea in itself - EREVs are very much a thing that meets some people's needs. But trying to retrofit an existing Model 3 into one seems difficult, complicated, unreliable, and most importantly, expensive. All to make it happen on a brand that heavily markets that they are electric only. On top of that, they chose the cheaper "affordable" model instead of the luxury model, meaning would-be consumers are going to be much more price-conscious.

If it wouldn't expose their incompetence in a competitive (and well-established) marketplace, it wouldn't surprise me to see Musk pivot to fossil.

Well duh. Who on Earth was going to pay stupid money to buy a car from the most (in)famously overpriced electric car brand just to put an ICE in there??

It'd genuinely be like buying an IPhone just to immediately put Android on it. Like it defies the premise of buying the thing in the first place.

• People who like ICE cars would surely just buy a fancy ICE car for that price.

• People who like electric cars wouldn't be putting an ICE in there in the first place, and would also probably just buy a better electric for that price.

• And the people specifically into Teslas wouldn't want to rip their brand new car apart to install an ICE, because part of the brand of Tesla IS the electrification.

Further evidence that Teslas are cars for people who hate driving.