To my knowledge, Tesla Motors were one of the first electric vehicle sellers for the ‘general’ public.
For context, the Model S debuted in 2012, and to this day, it still seems to be a very popular car.
How come other car manufactures cannot (or have taken many years) to come close to the performance and popularity of the Tesla models? Is it that hard to create 500km+ ranged electric vehicles? Tesla did it 10+ years ago, why has the rest not?
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In addition to what others have said, they were very good at building a culture that moved fast and worked very hard compared to their competitors. There was a clear mission, reinforced by things like open sourcing all their patents, and this attracted a lot of brilliant people to the company.
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