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On the face of it, "How can Tesla have 2x the market cap of Toyota?!?!" sounds pretty sane. Tesla owns its dealership / sales network; what's the value of thos
by cduzz 3y ago
On the face of it, "How can Tesla have 2x the market cap of Toyota?!?!" sounds pretty sane.
Tesla owns its dealership / sales network; what's the value of those "dealerships"? Similarly tesla runs a huge charging network and has convinced every other manufacturer to switch to their network (in North America). And tesla makes a bunch of power generation / distribution stuff. So "a car company" is incomplete. They also have tons of willing beta testers / AI trainers to go out and train their self driving model -- any tesla out there is collecting driving data and is getting trained by observing the driver's driving and comparing it to "what I'd have done" driving; not sure they'll ever get to "self driving" but there's some value there.
Tesla's also run by a drug addled risk addicted narcissist. He's pretty smart and has made a bunch of terrifying large bets that have consistently (cough except solar city and maxwell's dry cell battery stuff, and that eggs / stormfront thing) paid off pretty good.