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Originally Posted by M3guy3
any major car company right now could pull together a ton of money and resources and make a car like Tesla.
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Not in a million years.
(1.) most companies are hugely risk averse, they're never going to green light an unknown.
(2.) Most automobile manufacturers can barely pull together enough money to keep their ops going and invest in existing equip
(3.) They don't have the talent and the talent doesn't want to work for them
(4.) They don't know how to run a moonshot project, create new supply chains, develop technology from the ground up, etc - see talent
(5.) They have no incentive to - let Tesla take all the risk and then just copy / use their technology and supply chain
The Germans can push the envelope a bit, and are, but none of them would take on a project like building a Tesla.