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I'm not a fan of this style of management either, but at this moment in time we need a standard bearer for electric cars, and Tesla is best placed to fill that
by ZenoArrow 9y ago
I'm not a fan of this style of management either, but at this moment in time we need a standard bearer for electric cars, and Tesla is best placed to fill that role at the moment.
After the (hopefully successful) release of the Model 3, assuming this drives other companies to push forward electic cars, we won't need Tesla to be successful anymore, so I'd expect more people to be critical after that.
- maxerickson 9y agoHow does the Bolt fit into that framework?
- ethbro 9y agoI think people question GM's long term commitment to electric cars based on its history and legacy ICE business. That may change, but it's going to take awhile from anyone who remembers how the EV1 went. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
- maxerickson 9y agoI never drove an EV1 or anything, but I remember people being really mad they wouldn't sell them at prices equivalent to the really cheap leases they offered them to the public with, and that they had mediocre range (and remember NiMH batteries? Ew!).
- ethbro 9y ago> and remember NiMH batteries? Ew! In 25 years, I'm sure we'll be saying the same about our current lithium ion chemistries. You engineer with the technology you have, not the future technology you wish you had. ;)
- maxerickson 9y agoEven after some huge advance that rendered lithium-ion obsolete, I imagine I would still think of them as the line in the sand between batteries that worked okay and batteries that were pretty good. Not just for electric cars, things like cordless tools, lithium-ion versions are much nicer than anything that preceded them.