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While rockets do need lots of energy to make thrust, and both companies are built around smart people there's really nothing else in common between SpaceX and T
by labster 10y ago
While rockets do need lots of energy to make thrust, and both companies are built around smart people there's really nothing else in common between SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX is high-risk shipping, Tesla makes consumer goods. SpaceX makes vehicles with hydrocarbon propellants, the whole point of Tesla is to remove the hydrocarbons from vehicles. And there's no reason to put Tesla at risk if SpaceX runs into a string of bad luck.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoFair enough. It was mostly a "feeling" I had but your points are beyond rebuttal. At least for now.
- jonwachob91 10y agoElon wants to commercialize Mars (SpaceX), he'll need renewable energy to do it (Tesla). His end goals warrant a strong partnership between the two.
- dechov 10y agoBoth built around not just smart people but increasingly smart machines. The manufacturing processes and the autonomous vehicle products themselves are cases of state of the art robotics at scale. Some of this overlap is perhaps embodied by SpaceX's VP of Software Jinnah Hosein doubling as Tesla's VP of Autopilot Software before Chris Lattner's arrival.
- Symmetry 10y agoI'd like to see the day when the methan and oxygen propellants for the ITS are synthesized from water and atmospheric CO2 by Tesla solar plants. But SpaceX could just buy the methalox from Tesla, there's no complicated partnership that would benefit from merging them.