The real Tesla killer might be inside the factory

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“Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.” - Elon Musk, 2014
It has been an unseasonably quiet Week in Elon, so I’m going to take the chance to talk about a phrase that’s been widely used and abused (even by us):