Tesla revamps their roadster for 2020 and says it will run 8's in the 1/4 mile and hit 250 miles per hour

[Sticky]

In the grand scheme of things Tesla has taken far less than any other American auto manufacturer lol.

And all other OEM's can benefit from the EV fed tax credit...its not Tesla's fault no one else can make an EV that anyone actually wants to buy

True but they still get massive government help.

[subaru335i]

True but they still get massive government help.

All big corporations get massive government help its not even funny.

[Bowser330]

plus you could also say Tesla is still in the start-up phase (relative to its Big-Auto competitors) As a start-up you want to burn cash on innovation and R&D. It sounds crazy but its true, a lot of VCs wouldn't invest in companies if they saw you weren't spending cash. That was just one metric to show that maybe you were just full of $#@! and not really innovating and creating.

Tesla has done several amazing things and they continue to innovate and do more things no other company has done before. Innovation is their strong suit. Where I think they went wrong is trying to do volume manufacturing, that should have been recognized and not their bread and butter and should have been outsourced.