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  Tesla cannot be topped - 2018 Tesla Model S
  By Bill Dale - April 27 - 1:23 am

  The Teslas are leading all tech, safety, customer safety, and efficiency ratings... the entire automotive industry is begrudgingly going toward Teslas and EVs. It is inevitable. On March 31, 2016, when Elon Musk announced he was ready to start taking orders for the new Model 3... all orders would be taken with a $1K deposit... even Musk only expected a couple of thousand orders/deposits. NO ONE predicted what happened: Tesla received 185,000 orders/deposits in the first 24 hours. They received nearly a half-million orders within the following week or so, and despite their diligent effort to fill all those orders starting in September of that year, they have continued to have roughly a half-million orders/ deposits ever since, because new orders continue to replace all the orders that are being filled. This is a phenomena that has never before occurred in the history of commerce: not with Beanie Babies, Pet Rocks, Barbie dolls, Boeing airliners, iPhones or Hula Hoops. The automotive industry went into panic mode immediately. Throughout, there was a nearly unanimous immediate response--- from Porsche, Jaguar, MB, BMW, GM, etc.--- that there was an unrecognized thirst for a sea change in what the American public wanted and demanded... that if any car company ignored the demand for electric cars providing the equivalent of more than 100 mpg, with essentially no maintenance for a decade or more, and performance unequaled by any ICE vehicle... it was to the peril of any company. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Honda, Toyota and others resisted the trend, trying for months to redirect the public interest with fuel cell cars, diesel... newly redesigned vehicles of every flavor... but it was for naught. None of them found any way of stifling the surge in demand for EVs. Billions have been allotted by the various car makers for battery R & D, battery manufacture, and redesign of form factors to accommodate powerful, long-range EVs to hopefully compete with the likes of the BBC various Tesla models being offered and developed. Any laggard car company such as Lincoln, that tries to ignore this major Change, will find Tesla will be eating their lunch. If Ford Lincoln or anyone else does not recognize the immediate need for Change, it will be to their peril.