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[-] DFTBA_FTW@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of reasons to dislike Musk, this is not one of them.

When Elon came on board Tesla their business plan was to buy existing super cars and an existing electric drive train and then convert the super cars.

This was all going to be done by hand in a workshop. They would do dozens of cars a year.

Without Elon that's what they would be doing, he was behind the transition to building their own vehicles on their production lines and volumes comparable to normal manufacturers.

That's why he won his lawsuit to be listed as a founder.

[-] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The reason to dislike him in this instance is that he takes ALL the credit for the company’s success, never mentioning these two or Tesla’s beginnings

[-] awsamation@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

By the sounds of it all they brought to it was the name and maybe some technical knowhow. Because everything else about their business seems to have been abandoned. The only way to get further off from "we'll make electric conversions with preexisting parts" is to abandon electric cars as a whole.

He may not deserve all of the credit, but it sounds like he deserves something north of 90% of it.

[-] Xeelee@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

On top of that, they're both very rich now because of Tesla's success. There's really no reason to pity these guys.

[-] foobaz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, that's not how it went down. Watch this interview with them: https://youtu.be/eblPwXFb7TE

They had the full plan laid out (start with expensive sports cars, then step by step move into mass market) and got Musk involved using it as a proposal.

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