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Because they put a battery in a car?
by selectodude 9y ago
Because they put a battery in a car?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoBecause they single-handedly forced the market against its will to accept electric cars, and we're all better off thanks to it, now that regular car companies decided to join the party too.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoForced? Not really. They made a good battery-powered car and a lot of governments heavily subsidized fully electric cars.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThey made a first quality electric car that both solved the range problem and was sexy enough to attract a wide enough audience, thus for the first time making electric cars a viable and desirable alternative to ICE cars. The subsidies followed.
- selectodude 9y agoFederal subsidies in the US started in 2008, while the Model S wasn’t released until 2012.
- flexie 9y agoGovernments have heavily subsidized combustion engine car makers.
- Tade0 9y agoNope, because they made a car without a combustion engine and still managed to convince some people to buy it.
- asah 9y agoBecause they built a car that people lust after. Breaking it down: Exciting, classy exterior shape Retracting door handles Giant touch screen World class consumer software UI Regular OTA updates Ludicrous mode Auto pilot Each of these is individually incremental-- the sum is amazing... just like the iPod and iPhone: there were many MP3 players already in the market and my Windows mobile 5 smart phone worked pretty well - but nobody lusted after those things.