Thanks for the comments guys.. I have seen the Koenigsegg option which is actually what prompted the question. Love the Tesla stuff but also would like to see what options there are for new solutions rather than used Telsa motors etc.
It's a shame Elon hasn't thought to tap into the conversation market with a "crate" opinion as the demand is obviously there especially given that I'm sure I read somewhere, that he never wanted Tesla to actually become a car manufacturer but rather an OEM supplier but the industry didn't take them seriously - how wrong they were!.. and now they're too busy building cars etc.
Saint Elon has always been about the money, nothing more, imo. A bullshitter. He'd rather sell you 2x the battery you need vs incorporating V2G in the cars. He'd rather accelerate writing your car off so you buy a new one than providing unrestricted parts for reasonable money to restore it. And, your warranty is allegedly void if you should happen to restore a car with recycled (salvage) pieces, which is the green way to fix a bent car vs mining bauxite and rolling and stamping a new panel. "Elon hasn't thought..." 😂
And, Mr Green Transportation plans to launch 3 giant rockets a day that burn fossil fuels vs clean hydrogen to pollute the skies with an Internet monopoly, weaving a Mars fantasy for the rubes to rally around his cash pile.
"Either buy my new cars or get lost" seems to have always been Tesla's policy. No VIN number and record of ownership and you can't even buy a $3 wheel nut from Tesla, 3 years ago, anyway. The coolant was a secret sauce only Tesla could put in your car back then as well. They'll be forced to change now that they aren't the only game in town.
GM is betting the Tesla will fail to transition away from its arrogance and has called them on self-driving (which is for this young generation of kids who wait until their 20's to drive while we drove illegally underage because we like cars and to drive). $TSLA started wavering when the Mach-E started shipping...
So, yeah. The BIG-3's crate motors will be welcome. Ford has zero documentation and support (I called two days ago), so GM might as well release on the same footing. Ford's been clearly inundated with support requests on batteries, etc - the guy on the help line's first defensive "answer" was no batteries, controllers, etc.
This is going to be an interesting rollout, these "crate" motors. At least
D&VsEVJeep appear to have some internal contacts at a large Detroit automaker that may have a crate motor release, which could help us here.
