{"id":9385,"date":"2017-09-26T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/daimler-answers-elon-musks-twitter-challenge-on-evs.html"},"modified":"2017-09-26T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:54:27","slug":"daimler-answers-elon-musks-twitter-challenge-on-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/daimler-answers-elon-musks-twitter-challenge-on-evs.html","title":{"rendered":"Daimler answers Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter challenge on EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Elon Musk uses Twitter to express his thoughts frankly and directly, and he just took issue with a USA Today story about the size of a rival automaker\u2019s bet on electric vehicle technology. Musk noted that the reported $1 billion Daimler was spending on taking on Tesla was not enough for such a large company \u2013 and Daimler agreed.<\/p>\n

In response to Musk\u2019s tweet that the $1 billion figure cited in the USA Today tweet was too low, Daimler said that the Tesla CEO was \u201cabsolutely right\u201d and then pointed out that it\u2019s actually investing over $10 billion, including its next generation EV spend on top of its $1 billion investment in battery production alone.<\/p>\n

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Good<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 25, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Musk didn\u2019t actually prompt any change in Daimler\u2019s plans (or not in this tweet anyway \u2013 Tesla as a company has had an impact on the EV industry at large that\u2019s hard to quantify). Instead, Musk was guilty of that cardinal Twitter sin: Not clicking through and assuming the whole story is the headline or 140 character summary. Jalopnik\u2019s Dean Kawamura pointed this out, but Musk\u2019s cheeky answer could either be a straight up joke, or a reference to the fact that Tesla has changed the game for EVs. I prefer to interpret it as the latter.<\/p>\n

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Yes, I did \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 26, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Featured Image: Darrell Etherington<\/small><\/p>\n

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