Was there actually interesting EV tech to steal? Even when Tesla was new, there were various experimental EVs around, and it wasn’t that hard to build one. Tes

Was there actually interesting EV tech to steal? Even when Tesla was new, there were various experimental EVs around, and it wasn’t that hard to build one. Tesla’s real innovations seem to have been packaging existing 18650 cells into giant packs in an economical manner and putting everything together into a package that looked nice. And now there’s BYD, which, as I understand it: - Uses a highly integrated drive system that does not have any particular resemblance to Tesla’s - Uses prismatic LFP cells. Those cells and battery packs are very different from what Tesla uses, at least in the US. And Tesla has never actually been a heavyweight in the battery tech space despite periodic PR pieces from management. The rest is … just a car? What did BYD steal from Tesla exactly, other than market share?