Tesla: Impossible Until It's Not

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🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Tesla is the most valuable car company in the US, recently surpassing even the auto giant, General Motors. But this high valuation is not due to the number of cars they make and it is certainly not due to profits which are incidentally non-existent. So what is it all about? Ashlee Vance has written the preeminent biography on the genius driving Tesla, SpaceX and Hyperloop, Elon Musk, with insights gained from his unprecedented access to the eccentric entrepreneur. Peter Henderson talks about Tesla’s make or break moment as with the arrival and scaling of the S model, aimed at average American families. Peter Henderson, West Coast Deputy Bureau Chief, Thomson Reuters Ashlee Vance, Reporter, Bloomberg Businessweek This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 12, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	Tesla's effect has been much greater than the cars have made internally.
0:40.8	It's what we induce other companies to do that will have a greater impact than the cars we make ourselves.
0:45.8	That's the co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk,
0:49.3	a technology entrepreneur known for his ambitious thinking about big problems.
0:53.8	He's not really interested in individual people, but when we would talk about Mars, when we
0:59.0	talk about the climate, this is very strange, like empathy for the human species.
1:04.0	We'll hear from Musk biographer Ashley Vance, as well as tech reporter Peter Henderson,
1:09.0	talking about Tesla's next big thing.
1:11.1	If he's successful, you'll be getting average people going on this ride,
1:15.6	which he thinks will take you to a clean future.
1:24.4	Tesla, impossible until it's not.
1:29.3	Up next on Climate One. Is Tesla a car company, a technology company, or something altogether new?
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