[NotSammyHagar]

Part of it is that they are just way better at building a web browser that works really well and advances fast and fixes security issues fairly quickly. There's an open source variant (it's degoogled). Google loves this because they have a lot of tracking for their ad platform, but also it works really well. I know that Google also provides a lot of important services like noting dodgy websites and (too late sometimes) noticing dangerous extensions, all the way though, tracking most people all the time for serving them ads.

Tesla is a little bit of the same thing with their superchargers. Tesla has done the amazing thing of building them in lots of areas with enough superchargers that they are usable. But the thing that Tesla did that the entire rest of the dcfc industry can't do is just - fix them when they break. It's just stunning that more than a dozen companies can't do this this (EA is the one that really wasted billions, there are known reasons). Tesla is in line to be the predominant EV gas station for the future. Maybe they had some early mover strategy, but as someone who had both a Tesla and a ccs car, there's little comparison. Now that Tesla opened their sc to ccs cars (first with an adapter, later by incorporating that plug in the car directly if wanted), they are likely to control that market. This is incredibly powerful and will set them up to be really successful. Similar things with the Tesla vehicles having fantastic drive trains. Musk is ruining their reputation with his X related comments - but earlier he started ruining Tesla vehicles by removing turn signal stalks, removing drive train stalk, removing physical sensors (for things like curb and rain) and replacing them with poorly working "ai" things.

But to get to their predominant positions, I really think Tesla and Google got there by making better mouse traps, which of course also helped their other businesses incredibly.

This is way too long but I also wish there was a 100% capable de-googled chrome browser.