Last year I met Elon Musk at Economist’s
Innovation awards, where he was picking up the No Boundaries’ category.
What with Richard Branson calling him out in Time
Magazine’s 100 most influential and Iron man 3 with Robert Downey Jr basing
Tony Stark on him, there’s no shortage of shout outs at the moment.
As some of you will know I’m a big fan, but have had my
doubts on the whole Tesla take up. With
the recent launch of Rimac’s
Concept_One , coming in at the super car end of the spectrum and the
mainstream manufacturers getting their act together with cool offerings such as
the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive and Audi with their A3 E-Tron. Granted
most are not cheap, but part of the challenge I see a lot when commercialising
IP is getting the timing right. One
could argue that the opportunity was passing the great man by as he was
focusing on getting to Mars safely.
My faith in the Elon followership (only for Tesla – it never
waned on Space X) is slightly restored after reading this innovation
story brought to you via @timkastelle What will your next choice of car be? I have
to admit I’m still rather partial to the Tesla Roadster and as the electric vehicle infrastructure is more available, in my home city of Düsseldorf, CGI
are bringing this to life, we'll have to see if Tesla is the new Apple.
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