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Tesla(and spacex) have a massive marketing presence but have failed to deliver on their promises over and over. I stopped trusting their PR team, they must pro

Tesla(and spacex) have a massive marketing presence but have failed to deliver on their promises over and over. I stopped trusting their PR team, they must prove themselves instead of talking now. They did this to themselves.

zaroth 8y ago
That word “failed”, I’m not sure it means what you think it means. They may have been delayed from overly ambitious targets, but Tesla is shipping three different models of all electric cars, residential and large-scale energy storage, solar roofs (barely), and is building out the single biggest factory in the world. Now we’re hearing that Tesla is hitting $100/kWh for their battery cells. That’s a milestone that as recently as 2017 the DOE expected to be hit in 2020, and back when Tesla launched in 2003 was a compete and utter fairy tale. $100/kWh has for years been predicted to be the tipping point where long-range electric goes mainstream. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that is literally Tesla delivering on its core mission statement. SpaceX literally owns the orbital launch market and is a private enterprise trying to get humans to another fucking planet. How irrational can Elon-haters possibly get?