Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ...
by user5994461 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:54PM
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The big car makers will be flooding the EV market, irrelevant of Musk presence.
Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ...
by kazen44 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:28PM
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Also, the big car manufacturers have a huge head start in terms of actually producing a very large volume of cars across the globe.
If toyota decides they can make a yaris or aygo as a purely electric vehicle, tesla will be nearly unable to catch that large, low end market segment.
Also, you need low-end, mass volume cars to be able to push eletric infrastructure and replace the current gas infrastructure. (although i think using hydrogen and reusing the gas infrastructure might even be a better solution personally).
Musk is taking too many chances with too many things, often unnecessarily, but without him Tesla could be trampled by the big carmakers in the coming years in the EV market.
Who at Tesla will still want to add rocket alloy to their cars to make them the safest ever cars? Chances are whatever new CEO they hire will see that as a huge cost-cutting opportunity to be "more in line with the rest of the industry."