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Arguably, Tesla & Elon Musk already achieved their goal of speeding up the adoption to EVs away from combustion engines: all car companies are working now on or

Arguably, Tesla & Elon Musk already achieved their goal of speeding up the adoption to EVs away from combustion engines: all car companies are working now on or have plans for electric vehicles. Elon Musk has already succeeded big big time.

danielbln 9y ago
And to add to it: the other car companies are ACTUALLY working on EMVs now, not just show some design study drenched in blue lights at some car expo once per year before going back to selling Diesel engines like they did in the past.
kinard 9y ago
Without a doubt, It seems like everyone is playing catchup, I'm still shocked how far behind the German car manufacturers are. I recently switched from a BMW M5 to a model S. It's been a great switch for me. Slightly lacking in build quality but made up for in that 0-60 excitement!
- juanmirocks 9y ago
  Spot on. I live in Germany and fear for its car industry. Still, I hear good things coming from Audi or even still BMW. Mal sehen.
  - nickik 9y ago
    They had every oppertunity to get on this. They have government friendly for green cars, they have the scale to build charging infrastructure, they have the programming knowlage and so on. They could also have jumped in with the Supercharger network and profited from the global network that Tesla is building. Well, lets see how they recover, by now Tesla is way ahead.
gcheong 9y ago
Guessing it's more likely due to California's ZEV mandate.
- juanmirocks 9y ago
  Despite the huge importance of California, this is a global phenomenon. And the lead is in China.
notimetorelax 9y ago
Agree with that, whenever others post how Tesla is dead because others caught up, I feel they miss the point. Musk did this not to be a billionaire but to actually switch earth to electric cars and renewable energy. Same goes for SpaceX, if other's say that some competitor is going to beat SpaceX at its price or booster reuse. Well, again, that's the whole point - to make humans multi-planetry species, not to be a billionaire.

danielbln 9y ago

And to add to it: the other car companies are ACTUALLY working on EMVs now, not just show some design study drenched in blue lights at some car expo once per year before going back to selling Diesel engines like they did in the past.

kinard 9y ago

Without a doubt, It seems like everyone is playing catchup, I'm still shocked how far behind the German car manufacturers are. I recently switched from a BMW M5 to a model S. It's been a great switch for me. Slightly lacking in build quality but made up for in that 0-60 excitement!

juanmirocks 9y ago
Spot on. I live in Germany and fear for its car industry. Still, I hear good things coming from Audi or even still BMW. Mal sehen.
- nickik 9y ago
  They had every oppertunity to get on this. They have government friendly for green cars, they have the scale to build charging infrastructure, they have the programming knowlage and so on. They could also have jumped in with the Supercharger network and profited from the global network that Tesla is building. Well, lets see how they recover, by now Tesla is way ahead.

gcheong 9y ago

Guessing it's more likely due to California's ZEV mandate.

juanmirocks 9y ago
Despite the huge importance of California, this is a global phenomenon. And the lead is in China.

notimetorelax 9y ago

Agree with that, whenever others post how Tesla is dead because others caught up, I feel they miss the point. Musk did this not to be a billionaire but to actually switch earth to electric cars and renewable energy. Same goes for SpaceX, if other's say that some competitor is going to beat SpaceX at its price or booster reuse. Well, again, that's the whole point - to make humans multi-planetry species, not to be a billionaire.