Joshua Pinter@joshuapinter · Product Dev at CNTRAL. Maker of ntwrk.
Couple things to say about this video: 1) How did they go from this: to this: 2) Outperforming the Model S P100D by 0.11 seconds, a car that Tesla mass produces about 50,000 a year of, is not something to be making a big deal about. Tesla could spit out a concept car tomorrow that could blow that number away; but that's not the goal, the goal is *s… See more
Marko Islamovic@marko_is · Founder @ GigRove
@joshuapinter nothing really incredible about cost/perfomance since Tesla is being heavily subsidized...
Joshua Pinter@joshuapinter · Product Dev at CNTRAL. Maker of ntwrk.
@marko_is I don't think that's a fair statement.
Marko Islamovic@marko_is · Founder @ GigRove
@joshuapinter Just saying there are many car startups maybe even doing a better work than Tesla yet they will probably never see those amounts of subsidies needed for mass production..
@marko_is My understanding was that Tesla received loans from the DoE that they paid back, with interest. Is that not the case?
Marko Islamovic@marko_is · Founder @ GigRove
@momo Yup, Tesla did that. Still having an access to 465$ million loan is of great advantage against competitors, wouldn't you agree?
@marko_is Yes absolutely, but I think calling it a subsidy when it is a loan is a bit misleading.
Marko Islamovic@marko_is · Founder @ GigRove
@momo 465$ million is surely a favor not every electric car startup has access to, and if they couldn't pay back, it's the taxpayers that would pay.. it perfectly fits into a definition of government subsidy..