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Originally Posted by Azure
One thing that I will admit, I agree that Musk doesn't care long-term about 'cars'. He has repeatedly stated that long-term he wants to go to transition earth to have better energy sources, and go to Mars.
There is the chance that if he can sell off the car manufacturing part of Tesla to fund SpaceX he might do that.
Especially if he can split off Tesla Energy into a separate company.
But, who will buy Tesla for the $400B it is worth now? Or say $200B if he splits the company into two separate entities.
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No one buys it for that now. Please don't get angry, but my guess is in 10 years, as I said, other companies will have caught up to Tesla, thus reducing their relative value because they won't have the market to themselves at that point. Someone like Chrysler(I just like to pick on Chrysler) who is really lagging buys it.
But I'd imagine depending on the state of autonomous tech, they may sell that as one company(perhaps to license it to others), sell the car company as another, maybe sell the semi division to another, and solar and batteries to someone else. This doesn't have to happen all at once. But I definitely see Musk wanting to pursue other grander visions than a car company once electric antonymous vehicles are largely established in the marketplace.
Again, no need to get flippant, this is just a guess.