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▲ qwertox 3 days ago

Tesla should buy Mercedes, they'd make a good team together.

▲RegW 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Surely there is still some merit in having competition in the market place?

▲philipwhiuk 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mercedes should buy Tesla you mean.

▲qwertox 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) – ~ US$1.50 trillion

Mercedes‑Benz Group AG (MBG.DE) – ~ US$62 billion

▲philipwhiuk 3 days ago | parent [-]

MBG AG:

Revenue - €153.2 billion (2023)

Production output - 2,491,600

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Tesla:

Production output - 1,773,443 vehicles (2024)

Revenue - US$97.7 billion (2024)

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Maybe Tesla is just hillariously overvalued and MBG AG can afford them once the hype bubble implodes.

▲iamtheworstdev 3 days ago | parent [-]

when the hype bubble implodes.. Tesla doesn't exist anymore. None of their perceived future value is based on automobiles.

▲SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe that's why they have never built out a proper service facility network.

▲AtlasBarfed 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One of my fundamental criticisms of Elon musk performance as a CEO. The vast stock market price and valuation should enable these sorts of transactions.

It would enable Tesla to diversify operations move into applying its technology on a mass-market basis to hybrids without "damaging" the "purity" of the Tesla brand.

It would enable more marques to target specific economic bands, international markets, etc.

But no we basically have a car company that makes two cars.

▲kibwen 3 days ago | parent [-]

Elon Musk has completely lost interest in being CEO of a car company. Tesla is a whatever's-on-his-mind-today company.

▲dzhiurgis 3 days ago | parent [-]

They started working on autonomy around when Google started (2013 or so?). And fully focused on it for half a decade now. It's not that hard to understand, he's been repeating the mission statement forever. Same with SpaceX.

▲fnord77 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Tesla is getting out of the car business

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