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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by sliken on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:21AM (#19746095)
Access to the Panasonic battery supply is likely worth a pretty penny. I've been hearing about battery supply problems from Jaguar and Audi already.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by dragonwriter on Friday April 26, 2019 @05:25PM (#19761878)
> Access to the Panasonic battery supply is likely worth a pretty penny.

Licensing/partnership contracts are often written so that they don't automatically survive changes of ownership, which makes buying into such a partnership by acquisition less than reliable.

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