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What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think.
(arstechnica.com)
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Death it is, then.
it will be hilarious when musk fails yet again
Death by a thousand cuts
To shreds, you say?
Administered by anyone but Elon, of course.
And it's be okay with that honestly.
Sure he's an asshole, always was, but his money got the electric car competition started and now there's actually viable cars and a somewhat competitive market that could survive the loss of Tesla.
That's like saying that Apple started the home computer competition going.
There's a big difference between bucking trends and skipping steps for the sake of being different, and actually moving the industry forward.
Under a non-sociopathic leadership Tesla battery and engine tech would have been in most Western car brands by now.
Instead, let's look at what Tesla has really brought us:
That's the Tesla legacy that the car industry has inherited.
Tesla’s biggest move was that they were willing to actually compete with an EV. GM released one in the 90s and seriously go look into it. Everyone who bought it fucking loved the thing. But gm killed the project and destroyed the vehicles.
Tesla actually took sales away from ices. That forced them to actually sell evs
Preach
I agree with that. He started the entire thing and that's great, but now he should move on.
Sorry he started what? Or did you mean to say he took-over?
You are right, he didn't even start it.
GM made an electric car in 1996 (the EV1). It even has a random cult following to this day. Tesla's original founders sort of re-jumpstarted the electric car with new branding but we've been making electric cars for a long time. Range, cost, and infrastructure is what held us back not competition. Now we have the infrastructure (which I will say is what Tesla has largely given us, and what should be the way forward for their business model). The Nissan Leaf was the best selling electric vehicle of all time when Tesla launched the roadster (that same year). The problem really is that most car companies are bad at marketing electric cars to this day. In 2012 Ford launched an all electric Ford Focus. Just about nobody knew about it.
He did not start the entire thing and I'm sick of hearing people say that. He took a company from other people and ran it into the ground both by hemorrhaging money and with poorer and poorer build quality and I am quite literally sick of his face.
That last sentence stuck out to me too, a simple summary of all this mess. The other interesting part was at the end of the article, where they talk about the potential for the NHTSA requiring a recall fix for the "autopilot" feature that would be so expensive as to seriously damage the company:
Right! Like he knows the jig is up so he’s pulling out all his capital now to let the memestock fanbois take the fall. God forbid anyone rich ever suffer consequences.
Someone with deep pockets needs to buy the super charging network.
Rebrand and keep building.
I'm pretty sure there's a path to wealth in that idea. I have neither the means nor the skill. But some does. Just not Musk.
Someone needs to eminent domain the super charging network and run it as a service or at worst a utility.