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Re:Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc by labster on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:46PM (#13544288)
While rockets do need lots of energy to make thrust, and both companies are built around smart people there's really nothing else in common between SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX is high-risk shipping, Tesla makes consumer goods. SpaceX makes vehicles with hydrocarbon propellants, the whole point of Tesla is to remove the hydrocarbons from vehicles. And there's no reason to put Tesla at risk if SpaceX runs into a string of bad luck.
Re:Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc by jonwachob91 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:44PM (#13544931)
Elon wants to commercialize Mars (SpaceX), he'll need renewable energy to do it (Tesla). His end goals warrant a strong partnership between the two.
Re:Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc by dechov on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:46PM (#13547349)
Both built around not just smart people but increasingly smart machines. The manufacturing processes and the autonomous vehicle products themselves are cases of state of the art robotics at scale. Some of this overlap is perhaps embodied by SpaceX's VP of Software Jinnah Hosein doubling as Tesla's VP of Autopilot Software before Chris Lattner's arrival.
Re:Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @03:07PM (#13544552)
Fair enough. It was mostly a "feeling" I had but your points are beyond rebuttal. At least for now.
Re:Tesla Motors, Inc. Is Now Officially Tesla, Inc by Symmetry on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:27PM (#13548108)
I'd like to see the day when the methan and oxygen propellants for the ITS are synthesized from water and atmospheric CO2 by Tesla solar plants. But SpaceX could just buy the methalox from Tesla, there's no complicated partnership that would benefit from merging them.