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What has Tesla changed? All it did was show a market for non-garbage electric cars. Other more established companies are running laps around it now. How much of
by Kye 4y ago
What has Tesla changed? All it did was show a market for non-garbage electric cars. Other more established companies are running laps around it now. How much of that $25B went to the ever-retreating promises of self-driving?
- baggy_trough 4y ago"All it did"
- ChrisClark 4y ago> Other more established companies are running laps around it now. Huge citation needed. You can't just lie and will it to be true. :D
- nr2x 4y agoWhen was the last time they had a new model? I’m seeing a virtual Cambrian explosion of non-Tesla EVs in the South Bay in just the last year. Bolt and Leaf are the entry level models that make EV accessible. Tesla is still way out of reach for most people, serving a niche audience, and now merging their brand identity in many peoples minds with the toxic soup that is Twitter. I’m all in on EV, but Tesla blew it by failing to focus on the Bolt and Leaf market. And their SWEs are now apparently spending their time solving twitters HR problems.
- dabeeeenster 4y agoI'm not a Tesla fanboy, but come on. The model Y is the best selling car currently in Germany
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoNot a Tesla fanboy, but it seems you're dismissing many of Tesla's accomplishments here. Unless @Kye is the username secretly used by Jeff Bezos (hi Jeff!), I'd recommend you weigh how difficult it is to build something similar to Tesla.
- bryanlarsen 4y ago1900 car companies were started in the US. There are only 2 that have never gone bankrupt: Ford and Tesla.
- jjulius 4y agoOne of those has been operating ~100 years less than the other.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoTesla has been operating far longer than the vast majority of the 1898 others. Maybe a better way to state it is that Tesla has been alive and independent longer than ~1895/1900 American car companies.