The funniest thing is that the real Edison was also obsessed with electric cars and thought gas-burning cars were an ugly kludge and environmental menace But still got his lunch eaten by Henry Ford because his cars were absurdly expensive and not very goodhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1259980658132185088 …
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At the time Ford was the innovator, not Edison, but it was Edison's total inability to do cost control that sank his dreams of getting into the auto business
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And he had that seething resentment that Ford not using any innovative *technology* but just making cars cheap as hell and easy to crank out on a budget meant he won the game Like that was cheating
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