Editor's Pick: Tesla's Failings Overshadow Its Impressive Successes

Tesla's Failings Overshadow Its Impressive Successes

Rob Enderle Jul 29, 2019 10:26 AM PT
	Launching a new car company and getting it to global scale doesn't happen often, and it has been a long time since there has been a successful launch of one in the United States. Tesla really stands alone as the only new U.S. car company of scale since American Motors and Studebaker failed decades ago, when three auto companies then dominated the U.S. industry. [More...]

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