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Re:Dr. Elon and Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell by leesec on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:41PM (#18682722)
>Every company has an electric car in their blueprints, Tesla is the right size to benefit for the small demand that the market created on its own

They have those blueprints because of Tesla, they were not going to be nearly as quick to market with electric cars before hand.

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Re:Dr. Elon and Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell by avereveard on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:22PM (#18683716)
> They have those blueprints because of Tesla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/ZEROEMISSION/HISTORY/RNESSA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV

they're all sitting on a lot of technology, the current volume doesn't justify them to push into production, where tesla could use their gung-ho startup attitude and startup capital to run off the equivalent of rounding error for the establishment

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