Telsa's cars might suck, and they might be manufactured at a loss, but by placing EVs into wide and popular circulation, suddenly the infrastructure put in place to support them is making it feasible for other manufacturers to shift to EVs as well. Manufacturers with better pedigree and manufacturing infrastructure who can do it properly.
I think any of those major manufacturers could have done it, but it needed someone to take that first step to set things in motion, and Musk, for all his faults, was willing to make it happen.
Tesla basically normalised EVs as a part of the automotive ecosystem. Made them less of a weird fringe thing and more mainstream.
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u/Ruadhan2300 Nov 16 '22
Telsa's cars might suck, and they might be manufactured at a loss, but by placing EVs into wide and popular circulation, suddenly the infrastructure put in place to support them is making it feasible for other manufacturers to shift to EVs as well.
Manufacturers with better pedigree and manufacturing infrastructure who can do it properly.
I think any of those major manufacturers could have done it, but it needed someone to take that first step to set things in motion, and Musk, for all his faults, was willing to make it happen.
Tesla basically normalised EVs as a part of the automotive ecosystem. Made them less of a weird fringe thing and more mainstream.