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Employees have since dubbed the acronym policy the ASS Rule.
It had done away with so much of the mechanical dreck standard in an internal combustion vehicle. However, if something did go wrong with the car, Tesla would come pick it up and give the customer a loaner while it repaired the Model S.
“The mantra was that one great engineer will replace three medium ones,” Lloyd said.
Tesla did not feel as much like a car company as a bunch of guys tinkering on a big idea.
The savvy engineers knew better than to go into a meeting and deliver bad news without some sort of alternative plan at the ready.
Since Musk never writes anything down, he held all the alterations in his head and would run down the checklist week by week to see what the engineers had fixed.
Musk, though, approaches everything from a Platonic perspective.
Tesla, for example, wanted to call its third-generation car the Model E, so that its lineup of vehicles would be the Model S, E, and X—another playful Musk gag.
The simpler electric car design eliminates this type of maintenance.
What separated Tesla from the competition was the willingness to charge after its vision without compromise, a complete commitment to execute to Musk’s standards.
Enough solar energy hits the Earth’s surface in about an hour to equal a year’s worth of worldwide energy consumption from all sources put together.
It bothers Musk a bit that his kids won’t suffer like he did. He feels that the suffering helped to make him who he is and gave him extra reserves of strength and will.
The tree that resists the storm becomes the strongest and produces the brightest leaves.
