[bryanlarsen]

1900 car companies were started in the US. There are only 2 that have never gone bankrupt: Ford and Tesla.

[jjulius]

One of those has been operating ~100 years less than the other.

[bryanlarsen]

Tesla has been operating far longer than the vast majority of the 1898 others.

Maybe a better way to state it is that Tesla has been alive and independent longer than ~1895/1900 American car companies.