I'm not sure how many Tesla investors feel about this question, however I feel that Elon will allow battery packs to be created or modified for other car manufacturers in the future.
I have been involved in Tesla (tsla) i.e. owning shares since 2012, and I followed Tesla before that, I believe that Tesla Motors was started because Mr. Elon Musk saw what GM did in 1990's when they recalled all the leased EV1's they made, and then crushed them.
Elon saw the passion those EV lessees had when they marched to get their cars back, they wanted to buy the car they were leasing, instead they were destroyed, that really happened.
I don't know how soon battery packs will be created or sold to other car manufacturers, but I feel that will happen that will also get more EV's on the streets faster if more of them are available at reasonable prices.
Don't forget Elon did give some of his patents to car companies that wanted them so they could get into the electric car business.
Elon's reasons for doing that are his, but I think he didn't want to hog the business strictly for Tesla, and it made sense that he would.
If he did hog all the EV business, then other car companies could give Tesla a hard time going forward, they might have made it impossible to get traction in the market, both politically and monetarily.
Competition can be a good thing for business, it could make a better product for both the consumer and the manufacturer, because there is a learning curve with any business, especially in this one when there were no EV's on the road, and nobody was selling them.
Then there was the dealership problem that Tesla went through, selling EV's with Ford and other car companies takes some of the dealership pressure off Tesla.
As we all know Tesla can sell their electric cars online with much less of a problem than when they started, and I think that the dealers are satisfied now that they can sell their EV's in their dealerships, and will make their profits in the way they originally wanted.
Tesla can sell their cars in the way they wanted online, and in this way everyone wins thanks to the genius of Tesla's C.E.O Elon Musk.
Best Wishes,
Joe Florio
I have been involved in Tesla (tsla) i.e. owning shares since 2012, and I followed Tesla before that, I believe that Tesla Motors was started because Mr. Elon Musk saw what GM did in 1990's when they recalled all the leased EV1's they made, and then crushed them.
Elon saw the passion those EV lessees had when they marched to get their cars back, they wanted to buy the car they were leasing, instead they were destroyed, that really happened.
I don't know how soon battery packs will be created or sold to other car manufacturers, but I feel that will happen that will also get more EV's on the streets faster if more of them are available at reasonable prices.
Don't forget Elon did give some of his patents to car companies that wanted them so they could get into the electric car business.
Elon's reasons for doing that are his, but I think he didn't want to hog the business strictly for Tesla, and it made sense that he would.
If he did hog all the EV business, then other car companies could give Tesla a hard time going forward, they might have made it impossible to get traction in the market, both politically and monetarily.
Competition can be a good thing for business, it could make a better product for both the consumer and the manufacturer, because there is a learning curve with any business, especially in this one when there were no EV's on the road, and nobody was selling them.
Then there was the dealership problem that Tesla went through, selling EV's with Ford and other car companies takes some of the dealership pressure off Tesla.
As we all know Tesla can sell their electric cars online with much less of a problem than when they started, and I think that the dealers are satisfied now that they can sell their EV's in their dealerships, and will make their profits in the way they originally wanted.
Tesla can sell their cars in the way they wanted online, and in this way everyone wins thanks to the genius of Tesla's C.E.O Elon Musk.
Best Wishes,
Joe Florio