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#12 Elon Musk & How Tesla Will Change The World

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Tesla's End Goal Is to Accelerate the Advent of Sustainable Transport

Ashley Vance: I've been fascinated by Tesla for a very long time. The company's official mission was to bring compelling mass market electric cars to market as soon as possible in other words EVs are gonna happen but we're gonna make them happen a lot sooner sooner, he says. In the 2008 recession which made the entire car industry sad and especially Tesla who didn't yet have brand recognition or be profitable because of all the upfront investment they had been pouring in Tesla fired their CEO Eberhardt at one point during the recession. He also test drove the top-of-line X the Model X P100D that they just got in this was probably like a few months ago so big

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