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Personally I think Musk doesn't think this way. I think he sees the secondary aspects of Tesla's work on cars (e.g., the battery plants and larger infrastructur
by KirinDave 10y ago
Personally I think Musk doesn't think this way. I think he sees the secondary aspects of Tesla's work on cars (e.g., the battery plants and larger infrastructure of the electric car industry and positioning on standards bodies) as the actual big fish to hunt for.
Tesla cars are nice, but they didn't need to make the entire pipeline. They're doing that because they want to reuse the pipeline and tech in other industries.
- baq 10y agoI believe Musk means it when he says he wants to wean humanity off of fossil fuels. The big fish you talk about are definitely means to this end and not the goal itself.
- DenisM 10y agoThat's also true imho. Do note however that gigafactory is also fully integrated, squeezing the margins out of li-ion aupply chain.