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Re:SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit by lesuorac on Monday May 20, 2024 @08:17PM (#40422391)
It's pretty funny, there was so much pent up demand for EVs that the one guy that actually did it not as a political stunt became a billionaire.

It's not like they didn't have a chance to either, they all developed EVs as side projects [1]. Some of which were incredibly loved by their leasers (?) [2].

[1]: https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/HistoryOfEl...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

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Re:SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit by WalterBright on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:51PM (#40423914)
Anybody could put batteries in a kit car and sell it. And people did, but they didn't make much of any money for it.

What Musk did is:

1. add regenerative braking

2. design the look of the car to be exciting

Those two things are the critical engineering innovations Musk did.

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