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Tesla is the high profile company here. It seems normal that if they get the big headlines for positive events rather than Neoen or Panasonic, the bad events ar
by pyrale 5y ago
Tesla is the high profile company here. It seems normal that if they get the big headlines for positive events rather than Neoen or Panasonic, the bad events are likely going to fall on them too. In this situation, the high profile company is incentivized to enforce high standards across the industry.
The alternative (getting all the positive PR to well-known companies and blaming lesser known companies for failures in a vertical industry) would create negative externalities.
- rossdavidh 5y agoI doubt there is any prospect of Tesla "enforcing high standards" for any third party company installing their batteries. Can you imagine a lumber company enforcing high standards in how their lumber is used? Or steel companies enforcing standards on how skyscrapers are made? Or server companies enforcing standards on how server farms get made? We'd call that a massive overreach and power grab, and rightly so. This is the kind of thing that led to the "right to repair" movement.
- pyrale 5y agoLumber and steel are comodities. That means people don't really care about where they get their lumber/steel from; they only care about specific physical properties of the material they buy. Companies producing comodities are typically not high profile. High profile company status typically comes hand in hand with a modicum of influence which can be used to craft restrictive contracts, or to avoid association with garbage-tier industrial partners.