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The biggest difference between car companies and tech companies is return on invested capital.

According to that Tesla is somewhere inbetween a tech company and car company. Also it's the only car company that used software to substantially improve the performance of the car using software after selling it.




ROIC?

Have you got figures because I just googled for Telsa, Ford and Facebook at that doesn't seem to be the case, albeit with older figures.

Anyway at this stage Tesla are selling luxury cars to the converted, its unclear to me that they can keep doing that. Eventually they'll have to start selling to Joe Bloggs.

https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ROC/NAS:FB/ROC-/Facebook

https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ROC/F/ROC-/Ford-Motor-Co

https://www.gurufocus.com/term/ROC/TSLA/ROC-Percentage/Tesla...


Hackers do this to traditional cars - you can turn a bog standard Audi A6 into almost a RS with some software mods an di think to be safe you beef up the suspension and brakes

There Is of course the fabled Ford FBI chip that was used on FBI pursuit vehicles, knackered the engine life of course. I was told this buy a guy who worked at a Ford dealership.


ROIC is effectively useless for tech companies because they do not capitalize nearly enough R&D.




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