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stoy@lemmy.zip 9 months agoTesla while not a lone savior of the EV market, did do a few things right, they showed that the EV concept could actually replace a car, and that you didn’t have to sacrifice styling or performance.
They also showed other manufacturers that there was a demand for EVs
Other manufacturers would have done the same in time, but Tesla did it first.
Space Karen’s contribution to Tesla’s success can obviously discussed…
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
There was already a demand for EVs. That is WHY Tesla Inc (before musk bought them and insisted he was a founder…) existed and why there was a gradual push for what we would now call plug-in hybrids.
What tesla, under musk, did was to push a strong narrative that PHEVs were worthless (thus slowing adoption and national infrastructure) while making completely baseless claims on range. Also while pushing much larger “minimum” ranges than the vast majority of drivers need. Which increases the hell out of car costs and deterred other automakers from pushing their own EVs.
It is almost like the cybertruck is not the first time that company has pushed poorly made cars with a narrative based on features they don’t actually need.
Also, no, tesla inc (even before musk) did not make the firs battery EV car en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_the_electric_vehicl…