Everyone in the comments rightly complaining about this being am extortion, which it is! But tge more interesting part is the source of this behaviour: stock markets.
Tesla market cap was so high that any other normal producer felt the pressure. Simply designing and delivering good cars won't do it, because then you aren't a service company. Investors want you to exploit the customers to the last drop financially. You should try to make the product a service, because products are so 20th century! You shouldn't stop there though, you should also exploit their data. Because that's where the money is, because how else would you get ad revenue.
This is not meant to be satirical btw. It's really what's going on. VW tried to build a tech company as Cariad, which imploded because it's an old school industrial production company. They keep trying to throw tech at it but they can't do it like Tesla. They can build good EVs if they wanted, but they can't focus because imvesters are pulling them to ten different directions. One day it's software stack, the other day it's zonal architecture. It's sad to see them die a painful death like this.
Tesla market cap was so high that any other normal producer felt the pressure. Simply designing and delivering good cars won't do it, because then you aren't a service company. Investors want you to exploit the customers to the last drop financially. You should try to make the product a service, because products are so 20th century! You shouldn't stop there though, you should also exploit their data. Because that's where the money is, because how else would you get ad revenue.
This is not meant to be satirical btw. It's really what's going on. VW tried to build a tech company as Cariad, which imploded because it's an old school industrial production company. They keep trying to throw tech at it but they can't do it like Tesla. They can build good EVs if they wanted, but they can't focus because imvesters are pulling them to ten different directions. One day it's software stack, the other day it's zonal architecture. It's sad to see them die a painful death like this.