Obviously Tesla is getting a much larger bang for their R+D buck. Citation needed. What has Tesla been able to accomplish with its inhouse R&D that nobody else

Obviously Tesla is getting a much larger bang for their R+D buck. Citation needed. What has Tesla been able to accomplish with its inhouse R&D that nobody else has? Other than battery design (using cells developed and manufactured by Panasonic), pretty much everything Tesla does is subpar compared to automobile industry standards.