[ksec]

They did, Tesla was the first to invest into Gigantic battery production and winning with economy of scale and vertical integration.

That was until China has more electric vehicles sold than rest of the world combined. They made 95% of all electric buses in the world. So the economy of scale somewhat shifted. And the rest comes with continual investment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_industry_in_C...

[duncanawoods]

You seem to have missed the bit about Panasonic building all the cells.

[aeternum]

Note that although Panasonic is technically building them, they are doing so inside the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada. Panasonic wasn't able to deliver the gains that Tesla wanted which strained the relationship and led to Tesla's decision to manufacture cells independently.

[lvs]

"winning with economy of scale and vertical integration"

Might have been written by a bot.