Jason Badeaux

Tesla is by far the most advanced in releasing an FSD package, announcing in early 2020 that it had completed over 5 billion kilometers of testing under autopilot, against just 2 million miles over the past two years by its nearest competitor Waymo (backed by Google).

A corporation making central planning decisions and compensating its stakeholders at its discretion will never be as effective as a properly designed permissionless network that scales and compensates its most productive actors using the free market’s conceptions of supply and demand.

Tesla’s cell constraints are likely to continue over the medium term. Because its most profitable use of cells is likely to be in electric vehicles, we do not expect Tesla’s energy storage business to drive enterprise value meaningfully during the next five years.

The future grid will be built from the bottom up, driven by new technologies, DERs, that are in many ways superior to their predecessors.

The consequences of the existence of blockchains are thus that, for the first time in human history, we have a real alternative to governments and legal systems for the enforcement of promises. What are the effects this will have on the world?

In 2019, Bloomberg surveyed 5,000 Tesla Model 3 owners. The survey revealed that 99% of Tesla owners would recommend the car to a friend, and 98% would buy the same Model 3 vehicle again. The results of this survey suggest that every customer an ICE manufacturer loses to Tesla is unlikely to return to their brand (at least until they can produce a... See more

We can pump out a number of other popular use cases, and for each one, I'll let you move the goal post to not include that particular project.

• Filecoin - A commodity market for storage that's currently 0.0011% the cost of S3.

In Tesla’s 2016 annual shareholders meeting, Musk said:“We realized that the true problem, the true difficulty, and where the greatest potential is — is building the machine that makes the machine. In other words, it’s building the factory. I’m really thinking of the factory like a product.”