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Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value by agreedasdfs4 on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:47PM (#14024427)
Tesla isn't a car company. It's a power/battery company that makes electric cars.

This is the goal:

https://www.tesla.com/tesla_theme/assets/img/solar/section-h...

Powerwall Solar roof Car

All made/sold by Tesla.

If Apple can be a multi-billion dollar company making laptops, phones, and an app store, I don't really see the Tesla "could be a trillion dollar company" as too far-fetched.

I mean this is the era when SnapChat is "worth 25 billion".

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Re:Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value by macspoofing on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:51AM (#14058204)
>I don't really see the Tesla "could be a trillion dollar company" as too far-fetched.

Anything could be anything. The challenge for Tesla is that they validated the electric car market and managed to carve out some market share, but now they are in the sights of every car manufacturer in the world. It's a different ball game for them. Car companies know how to make cars at scale, Tesla doesn't. It's a big challenge.

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