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Old 01-16-2020, 04:35 PM   #373 (permalink)
redpoint5
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Acura TSX - '06 Acura TSX
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Absolute costs aside, Tesla, and Elon in general seems to favor vertical integration. He could have used existing companies to bore holes for his cars and roads, for example. He shot his own car into space using his own rocket. As others have said, if he's already got the infrastructure in place to build the SS rocket material, maybe it makes sense to make cars out of it too.
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