tesla’s solarcity bid isn’t about energy production

Ben Thompson* (temporary paywall) makes an excellent first-order analysis of Elon Musk's bid to acquimerge SolarCity with Tesla. But he, uncharacteristically, stops short of seeing the mid- and long-term reasons for the acquimerge. It's about SpaceX. It's about Mars. It's about the Moon. Musk knows that he needs an incredibly-solid pipeline of technology to get …
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