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Originally Posted by DGthe3
See, Tesla makes electric sports cars. For the entire industry to be motivated by them, the entire industry has to be making, or planning on making, cars to compete directly with the offerings from Tesla. And that has no chance of happening for the foreseeable future.
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Well, that's a difference of opinion between us. You seem to think that because Tesla builds electric sports cars, then they can only motivate people to build electric sports cars. I, on the other hand think that they can motivate people to build electric cars in general, not just electric sports cars.
Here's an example: If you've read
Mountains beyond Mountains, you might know about the story of Paul Farmer spending most of his time in Haiti helping the poor at absolutely no cost and no profit to himself. He might motivate people to go out and commit to various humanitarian activities, like volunteer for Habit for Humanity a few times a year. Just because they didn't go as far as to dedicate their entire lives to opening up a clinic in a third world country doesn't mean they weren't motivated by Paul Farmer. In other words, if something motivates you, it doesn't mean you have to reach as far as your motivating source to be truly motivated by it.