I don't understand. Using Elon in charge of Tesla? How can it be failing? I thought he was a genius and not just some guy that had a profitable company partly in thanks to all the carbon credits being sold?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when Tesla was just a play to sell more batteries? This is now BYDs business model.

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't remember that ever being a thing, actually. (Edit: as in "it completely went under my radar")

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was related to Tesla giving away it's electric motor payments, Elon said he did it to encourage battery sales.

Opening patents could help facilitate the expansion of battery charging infrastructure and ultimately create customers for Tesla's future battery factories, Kallo said.

Tesla has a goal of producing a mass-market electric car in about three years, and the company hopes a large-scale factory will leverage its projected demand for lithium ion batteries to reduce their cost. https://abcnews.com/Business/elon-musk-gain-giving-teslas-patents/story?id=24111407

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Ohhhh I vaguely remember the patents being opened, yes. That rings a bell