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Tesla’s Success Is The Inspiration For Most, If Not All, EV Startups

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When a company’s valuation exceeds half-a-trillion dollars and surpasses legacy automakers, you can kind of understand why. Tesla is single-handedly responsible for accelerating the shift from fuel-burning vehicles with tailpipe emissions to cleaner battery-electric vehicles. The shift would have happened without Tesla, but it would arguably have taken a lot longer to even reach the point...
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Tesla is a big part of it. Not only is Tesla's huge stock gain a draw for EV startup investors, but Tesla has also built up a talent base of tens of thousands of people with EV building experience who are now seeding the engineering teams at all these startups. This talent base didn't exist a decade ago. California's noncompete ban is a huge boon to EV startups!