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Still better than 2900 million and 0 cars tho?

Not to mention that at this same point 10 years into Tesla’s existence the Model S was in full production of 1,000 cars a week and Motor Trend Car of the Year.

Tesla had the advantage of being the only car company which was 100% committed to electric at that time.

1000 a year is pretty good for luxury eco friendly car in 2009.

Rivian cannot sit in the same place. They have to carve out some market segment that loves electric but hates Tesla or get enough funding to stick around for 10 years when Tesla may be vulnerable to competition.

Why do you think Tesla would be more vulnerable to competition in ten years than they are now? I am seriously curious

Size and lack of growth. If they are a 2 trillion dollar company they will not be able to grow nearly as much on a percentage basis at that point. Also it is harder to make big changes at large stable companies to respond to threats and large companies are more likely to ignore much smaller companies.

Global sales of the Model S are 250,000 to date, so Tesla definitely wasn't making 1000 of them back in 2013, when it was their only model.

It took them 2.5 years to go from making 2 dozen cars per week to 1000 per week.

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