"It also didn't hurt that Tesla had a billionaire EV enthusiast behind them."
There's an understatement. Nothing was going to happen without Musk and Straubel. And there was no billionair-ness when they started. Despite the unlikeliness of success that still surrounds it, the most important part and certain success of Tesla is in a factory near Reno, Nevada. Let's hope that doesn't disappear even if the EV business languishes. I wish Tesla would go private somehow. The quarterly earnings business of the stock market definitely handicaps projects that take a long time to pay off. Besos makes it happen in house. He considers a 7 year development timeline to be a protective moat, and it works. He can go full steam ahead on pie-in-the-sky stuff and when they pull it off the lead time they have against competition is insurmountable. On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 2:16 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone who says "there's no stopping it" or "there's no going back" hasn't > been paying attention to politics and business. :-( > > Of course Tesla makes good cars; they got to start with a blank slate, not > a > century of hidebound tradition. Is there any other production EV that's > 100% new? Maybe I've missed one, but AFAIK every other production EV > uses > at least some bits of previous ICEVs. Most are really just EPTO (Electric > PowerTrain Option) ICEVs -- that is, factory conversions. The Nissan Leaf > is mostly a Versa; its cousin the Renault Zoe is mostly a Clio. > > It also didn't hurt that Tesla had a billionaire EV enthusiast behind them. > > Of course the oil and auto companies don't want Tesla to succeed. Of > course > they're going to do everything legal, and some things that aren't, to > destroy Tesla. (See Tucker for another example of their efforts.) > That's > not a conspiracy, it's just business as usual. It's what they do. > > A few comments about the production. Has nobody ever told these guys > about > B-roll? The constant jump cuts are really annoying and distracting. > That's > hack work. Authenticity does not require incompetence, and incompetence > does not imply authenticity. > > If they'd work from a script or at least notes, instead of winging it, > they > might not need so many of those shoddy edits. > > Better yet, they should just WRITE something and post it. This video clip > has no reason to exist. It's a waste of bandwidth. It doesn't present > anything visually that really helps get their message across. I could > have > gotten the same information in 1/3 the time by reading a blog post > instead > of sitting through their unprepared, unrehearsed prattle. > > At least they don't ramble as badly as Rickard does. He's completely > unwatchable. > > OK, I'll yield the soapbox to someone else now. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190817/25a624bf/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
