How has TESLA managed to build what was considered to be the unattainable core competency of established car companies, namely secure, competitive steel bodywork?

And in such a short time?

Personally, I have much greater respect for that than for their hundred-pack laptop batteries

That's not as hard as the auto industry likes to talk about. Otherwise, Asian companies would not have been able to compete so quickly with the old-established companies.

Also in the nineties, ordinary students showed how to build an eco-friendly car. At that time based on the Renault Twingo, which they called Greengo.

With a continuation of this development, the problems of cars would not be as great as they are today

The corporations make us aware they built autis according to the customer's wishes. It is correct that the customer buys what he gets offered. And what the advertising pretends to him.

Freedom by four-wheel drive truck in city traffic. (totally stupid, but what's going on? A 2.5Tonner with four-wheel drive)

That is not right. Many car companies that built self-supporting bodies for the first time today are absolute nightmares for vintage car owners, with umpteen overlapping sheet metal layers with a rust guarantee. And the miserable crash results of some China crutches speak volumes

Frame constructions are rigid and cost many lives. Man broke, machine healed.

There should rather grouch some hobbyists

The corporations make politics here. The politicians are mostly what? Right, in any automotive group on the board. So they will not even break the sales market of their company. It is as long as everything is nice to talk until it is no longer possible. Then they quickly pull in their heads and step back. It had always been that way.

Whether it makes sense or not anyway anyway only on the edge times asked and handled quickly. So, I think all these companies are long in development than they admit to the customer. Only the development costs and abundant profits are retracted but you can't name quite honestly, before you put something else on the market

But with electromobility, one has set oneself too much in one way or another. That is not as environmentally friendly as well-spoken.

And the comprehensive infrastructure is missing. The environmental damage caused by it will come on top of it.

And green electricity should no longer be promoted.

Environment No Thank you is the current political approach

Tesla had the great advantage here, that unlike the burner, they never had to plan the driveline into the design

the mass of the internal combustion engine and the auxiliary units is almost completely absent in an e-car
the motors have the size of watermelons and can be accommodated well, the few, still needed, auxiliary units, can be installed to save space
This gives you much more possibilities to bring a crumple zone into the vehicle without danger potential, which significantly increases overall safety

I'm looking forward to test values from id3, i-pace, sion and e-go
whether they achieve similar values, or whether tesla actually did a very special job there

ps. The bodies at tesla are largely made of alu (also on the model 3) - only very few heavily loaded components are reinforced with boron steel