[iainmerrick]

Tesla has at least partly solved some of those, no?

- Charging network: don’t they have their own network? I’m sure it’s not widespread enough to meet everyone’s needs, but it’s not nothing and helped get the ball rolling.

- Battery tech: has been gradually improving, range is now in the hundreds of miles which is enough for many uses.

- Too expensive / everybody wants an SUV: starting with luxury and sports models and gradually following up with mass-market models addresses both of these.

So I think the analogous questions for Boom are good and valid questions. Tesla had decent answers and Boom should too.

[nacs]

That's the point OP is making -- that people early on will be nay-sayers (like in the 2005 post) that then turns out to be false.

[iainmerrick]

Ah, I see, thanks!

I still think the questions are perfectly reasonable. But maybe it just needs to be phrased as “how do they plan to address these?” rather than “which ones have they solved?”

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> that then turns out to be false.

That then turned out to become increasingly false over time. Buying the early stage product is a risky bet, you hope it will take off like that, but it might not. They do need a plan to address them, and to be trustworthy.

[corndoge]

That was gp's point I think, that Tesla was panned at first and solved their challenges, no reason to dismiss Boom.