Deutsche Bank's Dan Galves told us the trick to Tesla surmounting the critics was its ability to turn an ostensibly startup product to look like all the other guys' vehicles: … The cars are more science experiment than automobile. … It's just too easy to get gas, and the market would remain limited to, as we said in February, “tooling around their neighborhoods or cities — or, with uber-rich drivers, for impressing their friends with a gorgeous, unusual, and sexy rich person's … …

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