>>1195593I personally don't believe hyperloop can succeed financially.
Specially rooting for the Boring Company currently. If they can achieve multiple reductions in tunneling time and cost it would be significant in many industries, even if they end up just mostly digging boring old subway tunnels.
>>1195593He's a better promoter than a business man, for sure. There's Gwynne Shotwell in SpaceX to keep things in check.
He's relying on massive debt levers to bring disruptive technology faster to the market than the established industry can adapt, this mode of operation can't last forever unless they truly, really get the space colonization going. Then again I can't see how Tesla could grow as fast as it is attemting without it.
Ironically, someone from Ariane Space quipped the old wisdom of its not necessarily good to be the first in a new market. Ironically, as this would better describe the Tesla's situation. Even the big western auto makers are now introducing new all electrics and in the china the domestic EV makers are already making a noticeable bent in the statistics. To survive, they have to get quickly from the 'luxury' to the 'high end' market and also have better and cheaper batteries than everyone else.
