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> The battery and solar operations side of TSLA are critical to spaceX's mission to Mars.

What stops them from buying off-the-shelf commodities? Why the NIH? Didn't they, to much nerd fanfare, famously make all of TSLA's patents public two years ago? What stops them from sourcing these components from someone else?




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