[dsacco]

Seriously. No amount of design savvy and fandom is going to allow Apple to displace Tesla's core competency that easily.

The Model S is the best performing electric car on the market. It is a luxury vehicle with nearly every modern accommodation for comfort, the ability to accelerate to 60 mph in as little as 2.5 seconds and well over 200 miles to a single charge.

I can't even conceive of how someone could say Apple is the company to make a no compromises car to beat Tesla with a straight face. I can't even see a compromise.

[toomuchtodo]

Several of the Model S features (enhanced unibody strength due to friction stir welding, the fuse that enables Ludicrous mode) are enabled by tech sharing from SpaceX. This is not something Apple (or any non-integrated manufacturer really) can easily replicate.