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I think it would have happened anyway. Electric vehicles are not new. Electric cars are as old as cars. The first car to reach 100km/h was electric for example

I think it would have happened anyway. Electric vehicles are not new. Electric cars are as old as cars. The first car to reach 100km/h was electric for example. In the last 20 years batteries and electronics have improved a lot, so electric vehicles are interesting once again. And I don't think Tesla can explain the Mitsubishi i-Miev or the Nissan Leaf, the BMW i3, or the Renault Fluence just to give a few examples. Sure these cars were not designed to take over the world, but eventually electric vehicles were going to become more and more common in my humble opinion.

LeonM 6y ago
> I think it would have happened anyway. I didn't say it they would have never happened, I'm just observing that due to the competition (Tesla in this case, vaporware or not), the plans for EV trucks certainly seems to be accelerating.
input_sh 6y ago
To add to your comment, plenty of EU members have set a target to replace a part of their existing truck/car infrastructure with electric vehicles. For example, Germany wants to have a third of its trucks electric by 2030. EU truck manufacturers like Volvo, Renault, MAN, and Daimler are all a year away from responding to market's demands. US manufacturers are behind a few years for a chance to respond to that initial demand.
dahfizz 6y ago
>> Musk's mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable transport seems to be working flawlessly. > I think it would have happened anyway. You could say that about literally anything. Space travel would have happened anyway. The internet would have happened anyway. The conditions of history are a prerequisite for any major breakthrough. The advancement in rocket technology made space travel possible, but that doesn't make Neil Armstrong's achievements meaningless. He was not passively riding along some wave of inevitability, he was a pioneer that actively pushed humanity further into the future.

LeonM 6y ago

> I think it would have happened anyway. I didn't say it they would have never happened, I'm just observing that due to the competition (Tesla in this case, vaporware or not), the plans for EV trucks certainly seems to be accelerating.

input_sh 6y ago

To add to your comment, plenty of EU members have set a target to replace a part of their existing truck/car infrastructure with electric vehicles. For example, Germany wants to have a third of its trucks electric by 2030. EU truck manufacturers like Volvo, Renault, MAN, and Daimler are all a year away from responding to market's demands. US manufacturers are behind a few years for a chance to respond to that initial demand.

dahfizz 6y ago

>> Musk's mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable transport seems to be working flawlessly. > I think it would have happened anyway. You could say that about literally anything. Space travel would have happened anyway. The internet would have happened anyway. The conditions of history are a prerequisite for any major breakthrough. The advancement in rocket technology made space travel possible, but that doesn't make Neil Armstrong's achievements meaningless. He was not passively riding along some wave of inevitability, he was a pioneer that actively pushed humanity further into the future.