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.

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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.