>I'm actually surprised we haven't heard of any of the big three going all out attempting to acquire tesla.
I'm not. The big three don't have enough cash to pay the market cap multiple needed to gain control, especially now that Tesla is bigger than Ford.
No sane lender would loan the money to one of the big three to do it either - first, the money would be better spent just buying Tesla stock and second, there is no way that Tesla would be run better by pulling it into one of the big three car comnpanies, none of which have a strong non-incremental innovation culture.
People love the machines they make.
Ford can add body stylings all they want, but they can't match tesla or spacex or solar city.
I just don't think they have it in their DNA - I'm actually surprised we haven't heard of any of the big three going all out attempting to acquire tesla.
What would be a very interesting event would be when Tessa builds a long haul delivery truck/trucks in general. There is no way they haven't thought of a general platform chassis which can have modular tops put on them.
Wouldn't it be great if tesla sold a chassis to boutique shops like there were in the 20s...