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cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/6002282

He revealed the secrets !

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seriously. If Elon shut down Tesla tomorrow all these engineers would be building electric cars at other companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Does (or does not) he get the credit for committing the fraud that kept Tesla in business long enough to popularize* electric cars that there are other companies at which to build them?

Aforementioned fraud:

(When searching, found apparently jurors in 2023 disagreed with my assessment, so please take with grain of salt.)

*I say “popularize” given:

Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by [not Elon! but] Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors.