[juanmirocks]

Arguably, Tesla & Elon Musk already achieved their goal of speeding up the adoption to EVs away from combustion engines: all car companies are working now on or have plans for electric vehicles.

Elon Musk has already succeeded big big time.

[danielbln]

And to add to it: the other car companies are ACTUALLY working on EMVs now, not just show some design study drenched in blue lights at some car expo once per year before going back to selling Diesel engines like they did in the past.

[kinard]

Without a doubt, It seems like everyone is playing catchup, I'm still shocked how far behind the German car manufacturers are. I recently switched from a BMW M5 to a model S. It's been a great switch for me. Slightly lacking in build quality but made up for in that 0-60 excitement!

[juanmirocks]

Spot on. I live in Germany and fear for its car industry. Still, I hear good things coming from Audi or even still BMW. Mal sehen.

[nickik]

They had every oppertunity to get on this. They have government friendly for green cars, they have the scale to build charging infrastructure, they have the programming knowlage and so on.

They could also have jumped in with the Supercharger network and profited from the global network that Tesla is building.

Well, lets see how they recover, by now Tesla is way ahead.

[notimetorelax]

Agree with that, whenever others post how Tesla is dead because others caught up, I feel they miss the point. Musk did this not to be a billionaire but to actually switch earth to electric cars and renewable energy.

Same goes for SpaceX, if other's say that some competitor is going to beat SpaceX at its price or booster reuse. Well, again, that's the whole point - to make humans multi-planetry species, not to be a billionaire.

[gcheong]

Guessing it's more likely due to California's ZEV mandate.

[juanmirocks]

Despite the huge importance of California, this is a global phenomenon. And the lead is in China.