News Digest Item
09 Aug 2016

“Wait or Drive: BMW pokes fun at Tesla“

Focus Online

A BMW TV spot airing on U.S. television pokes fun at electric vehicle maker Tesla and its ongoing problems while promoting its own e-car, Sebastian Viehmann writes in Focus Online. Tesla is facing technical difficulties with its autopilot feature, possible setbacks with its battery Gigafactory and its hotly anticipated Tesla Model 3 is not expected to hit the market before 2017. In the BMW television advert, a man waits outside his home for his Tesla, looking enviously at his neighbour and his new BMW 3 Plug-In Hybrid (330e). BMW was itself the target of a similar advert from rival Toyota.

Read the article in German here.

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