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> It's not that Tesla will or won't be successful, it's just that as it succeeds, it's changing the ecosystem around it.

I invested in Tesla because I wanted this to happen. For me, Tesla is not successful unless it changes the ecosystem around it. If, while doing that, it goes under as a car manufacturer, but in the end changed the ecosystem for the better, that's great! Sometimes a thing only exists in order to make itself redundant.

I doubt this will happen, though. Instead, I expect it to be like the iPhone vs Android: there will continue to be a premium electric car by the people who launched the first real contender, but other companies will outscale them and eventually provide really competitive products. That's also fine. (Note that Android was a newcomer as well....)




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