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Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders by jshevek on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:35PM (#12228262)
> Even if energy generation, storage and an auto powertrain are a seamless product, so-called vertical integration [...] That approach has gone down in automotive history as a colossal failure.

This kind of statement always bothers me.

Just because several entities experienced failure using a method in the past doesn't mean that the method itself is guaranteed to fail always and forever.

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Re:Everyone Despises SolarCity Deal, Except Tesla Shareholders by VogonWorkEthic on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:33PM (#12229389)
It's also pretty irrelevant. The vertical integration isn't for producing cars, it's for producing sustainable energy products. And we all remember why vertical integration is famous... the unprecedented success of the steel industry e.g. Carnegie and the other steel barons. The article seems premised on a false equivalency fallacy.
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