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Tristan Harward

@mhoye called it. As soon as other makers decided to make some electric cars (not hard for them, just a market decision), there’s no need for Tesla. It was an early monopoly, nothing more.

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mmalc

@trisweb @mhoye

Strongly disagree; the fact that other manufacturers (also) fumbled the ball in getting EVs out showed it was hard for them. Tesla deserves credit for, to a non-trivial extent, actually making the market. They — particularly their leader — also deserve all the blame for having squandered their opportunity.

abracadabra holmes

@mmalc @trisweb @mhoye
Fumbled intentionally. EVs were held back by Oil kickbacks until they showed their profitability.

Tristan Harward

@mmalc @mhoye Yeah I really don’t think we disagree; I’m not saying that automakers were somehow ideally strategic here, they were not, they are very bad at this like every company is bad at strategy; just saying that once they did get electrics out Tesla had no chance.

Of course Tesla deserves credit; but they also deserve blame for treating car manufacturing like a marketing gimmick and throwing away decades of knowledge on how to do it well, and that is their undoing. Now that there’s competition I honestly believe they have no chance, and their early credit is irrelevant to that.

@mmalc @mhoye Yeah I really don’t think we disagree; I’m not saying that automakers were somehow ideally strategic here, they were not, they are very bad at this like every company is bad at strategy; just saying that once they did get electrics out Tesla had no chance.

Of course Tesla deserves credit; but they also deserve blame for treating car manufacturing like a marketing gimmick and throwing away decades of knowledge on how to do it well, and that is their undoing. Now that there’s competition...

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