[baybal2]

https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+welding+cracks

> It can't just be "oh, the others just made bad choices".

I'm afraid this is exactly what it is.

When the team works from a bigger setup of existing auto company, they will be held back on most expensive, but necessary design decisions.

In from-scratch EV companies, on other hand, lack of experience in everything else, and lack of manufacturing resources, is usually the origin of failure.

All big misses in EVs in recent years were conventional auto makers making silly stupid mistakes in electric drive trains, and "from scratch" EV makers making cars that are either unmanufacturable, or undriveable.