Tesla: Tesla's plan for affordable cars takes page from Detroit rivals


by ETtech.com

ETtech.com— Elon Musk's new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles - rather than springing for all-new models - follows the playbook of Tesla's old-school Detroit rivals, as some Tesla investors and analysts see it. The shift toward incremental improvement, mirroring a common strategy of Ford and General Motors, suggests the future of car-making that Musk has promised to disrupt may still look a lot like the past. Musk's new strategy followed an exclusive Reuters report...

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