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Originally Posted by ernie
If they can continually turn a profit and continue to have R&D success it will take quite a bit of time for the other to catch up. In that case the struggle moves from trying to become an established business to one of trying to remain the market leader. I know a few people that have Tesla's now and they all agree it's the best car they have ever driven and it's not even close. It's more than just being a electric car I think.
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This is the thing, not really.
You are correct that Tesla has been a Guinea Pig and doing so by getting hefty rebates and Government assistance, but whats likely going to happen is that businesses with most of the groundwork already laid are going to just come in and copy whats taken Tesla years to develop from scratch.
They have their market share, sure, but once those Government subsidies dry up, and its happening fast, they are going to be in trouble.