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Tesla is fundamentally trying to change a 100 year old industry and get cars off fossil fuels. If Apple never existed we'd have uglier mobile phones. If Tesla n
by icc97 9y ago
Tesla is fundamentally trying to change a 100 year old industry and get cars off fossil fuels. If Apple never existed we'd have uglier mobile phones. If Tesla never existed the switch to electric cars might well be delayed by a decade.
Perhaps people forget the scale of the Gigafactory and how important batteries will be over the next 100 years.
Let's see when Apple starts giving all their patents away for free.
- LoSboccacc 9y agoehm, the real issue has been for the last three decades that electric cars rely on government incentive to be profitable and on top of that nobody knows really what to do with batteries if ev become _really_ widespread https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Panda_(1980)#Panda_Elettra_e_Panda_Elettra_2 https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Panda_(1980)#Panda_Elettr... the only thing that's credit to Musk is to have made EV "premium" and "novelty" enough so that people will to pay a higher total cost of ownership to be part of the brand vision.