{"id":2995,"date":"2016-06-26T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2016-06-26T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T01:02:15","slug":"teslas-solarcity-bid-isnt-about-energy-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"tesla&#8217;s solarcity bid isn&#8217;t about energy production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2016\/brexit-and-tech-more-on-musk-tesla-and-solar-city-the-allure-of-live-facebook-and-espn\">Ben Thompson<\/a><sup>*<\/sup> <sup><sub>(temporary paywall)<\/sub><\/sup> makes an excellent first-order analysis of Elon Musk&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/cars\/2016\/06\/26\/elon-musks-solarcity-bid-mistake\/85648452\">bid<\/a> to acquimerge <a href=\"http:\/\/solarcity.com\">SolarCity<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/teslamotors.com\">Tesla<\/a>. But he, <a href=\"http:\/\/exponent.fm\">uncharacteristically<\/a>, stops short of seeing the mid- and long-term reasons for the acquimerge.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s about <a href=\"http:\/\/spacex.com\">SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s about <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2015\/02\/12\/my-tech-predictions-for-2015\/#.V3B6fLgrL4Y\">Mars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s about the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Musk knows that he needs an incredibly-solid pipeline of technology to get SpaceX past its initial &quot;toy&quot; phases of being a launch company to the <a href=\"http:\/\/iss.astroviewer.net\">ISS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to ensure that he&#39;s able to support the future on non-terrestrial bodies &#8211; lunar missions, Mars missions, long-term space exploration, high-altitude space stations, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it <em>happens<\/em> to be good for Tesla (integrating solar tech at Tesla charging stations is a no-brainer). But that&#39;s not the end game.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is space.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup> Follow Ben on Twitter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benthompson\">@benthompson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Thompson* (temporary paywall) makes an excellent first-order analysis of Elon Musk&#39;s bid to acquimerge SolarCity with Tesla. But he, uncharacteristically, stops short of seeing the mid- and long-term reasons for the acquimerge. It&#39;s about SpaceX. It&#39;s about Mars. It&#39;s about the Moon. Musk knows that he needs an incredibly-solid pipeline of technology to get &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2995\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tesla&#8217;s solarcity bid isn&#8217;t about energy production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[65,467,479,693,694,701,757],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-insights","tag-acquisition","tag-mars","tag-merger","tag-solar","tag-solarcity","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}