Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees
by flexie on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:46AM
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That’s like saying Apple didn’t transform the cell phone industry but only led the industry by 2-3 years before Android followed.
Or that Apple didn’t innovate because they merely used known technologies like phones, batteries, and touch screens.
Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees
by rohit2412 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:14PM
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Except apple made products for profit which others could have but didn't.
Tesla made cars at loss, which others really couldn't.
But at the core of it, Tesla has the hype of Elon musk, and no other car manufacturer can pull that off.
Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees
by jandrese on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:17AM
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> Tesla doesn't even make battery cells, they buy them from panasonic
What is the Gigafactory doing then? I thought it was all about batteries.
Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees
by bildung on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:30AM
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Gigafactory is a factory from Panasonic, plus a contract with Tesla that allows Tesla to put its sticker on it. Panasonic also produces batteries for Tesla models in its Japanese factories.
Musk is brilliant at this kind of marketing. Did you know he actually didn't found either Tesla or SpaceX himself?
I would say they led the industry by 2-3 years because of capabilities of making losses (actually not, Chevy bolt came before model 3).
What made electric cars possible is cheap batteries, otherwise they'd have built model3 right out the gate. And Tesla didn't make batteries cheap, consumer electronics did. Tesla doesn't even make battery cells, they buy them from panasonic