next to a Toyota hybrid. Yeah. And he said, essentially, people want, they want an electric vehicle, but they also have the money to spend for a... Yes. And that was a completely valid market segment that they've gone after. I think Tesla made a mistake though in trying to become a mainstream auto manufacturer. The Model 3. Right. Exactly. Which is where the real disaster has struck, right? And I mean, a niche auto player, you can make a profit and be a standalone business. You might not get much equity value for that though. So I mean, I always thought Tesla would do fine if they stuck to making basically custom ultra high end sweet rides for a very wealthy select population, which is how they got started. There's a lot of rich people in Silicon Valley. You can make that kind of business work and keep the scale small enough where you can manage it. But Elon promised a million cars on the road by 2020 back in 2016 when they were putting out $50,000 a year. And they still haven't sold (26/45)
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