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by sschueller 923 days ago
What value was created? Car sales have not exactly exploded. [1]

[1] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-car-sa...

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The value is this magic building: you put metal sheets & plastic granulate in one door and cars come the other door.

Most other vendord are only a marketing shell whereas everything is outsourced to a galaxy of suppliers. Tesla has full vertical integration and captures value of the whole chain including dealerships. Plus Teslas are have performance of supercar and can demand much higher margins.