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Comment by nickthegreek | Hacker News Reader

I am having trouble viewing this as a good use of Tesla’s resources. Am I missing something? It would be one thing if their stock was riding a high.. but this feels like it’s failing to read the room. If Elon wants to mess around with this kinda thing, shouldn’t it be done under a joke company like Boring? That’s how he did the flame thrower.

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Teslaquilla and the surfboard were from Tesla. Anyhow, it's probably straight from Ali Express and the only Tesla resources were the web intern who had to build a page for it.

Since the article says it's using a different company's product, I wonder if it's just a matter asking them to design a unique casing and slapping the Tesla name on it, for a little license fee. So most of the profits would go to the original manufacturer.

Somewhat similar to this famous guy who would license his name to building projects: Trump.

Does that imply there will soon be Tesla steaks?

No, bad for the environment. Maybe some Tesla Tofu though.

It's licensed merch made by FreePower. Tesla didn't develop this, just how they didn't develop their t-shirts or other merch. I'm not even sure why this is news.

Charging batteries is one of the core competencies of Tesla.

To expand on this a bit, if Tesla's able to pull off wireless charging without strict alignment constraints and able to scale the solution up to something automotive-sized, then this could be a killer feature for EVs.

Last I checked the latter is currently far from feasible, but hey, maybe in another decade things might be different?

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