{"id":159502,"date":"2023-03-03T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/teslas-investor-day-showed-it-is-one-generation-ahead-of-rival-automakers-in-ev-race-former-ford-ceo-says"},"modified":"2023-03-03T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T03:36:05","slug":"teslas-investor-day-showed-it-is-one-generation-ahead-of-rival-automakers-in-ev-race-former-ford-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/teslas-investor-day-showed-it-is-one-generation-ahead-of-rival-automakers-in-ev-race-former-ford-ceo-says","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s investor day showed it is \u2018one generation ahead\u2019 of rival automakers in EV race, former Ford CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teslas-investor-day-showed-it-is-one-generation-ahead-of-rival-automakers-in-ev-race-former-ford-ceo-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company also showcased other executives, which could alleviate concern that Musk has been too distracted by his other business ventures. They also talked about \u201cmeat and potato\u201d topics like cutting costs, improving margins, and EV-charging infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The keys to winning the EV race will come down to product appeal, software or user interface, controlling cost, and consistent execution, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd Tesla right now is one generation ahead of the other automakers,\u201d Fields said, though rivals like Ford and Hyundai are making a lot of progress. \u201cTesla still has the leg-up on the competition, and I think they demonstrated that yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company also showcased other executives, which could alleviate concern that Musk has been too distracted by his other business ventures. They also talked about \u201cmeat and potato\u201d topics like cutting costs, improving margins, and EV-charging infrastructure. The keys to winning the EV race will come down to product appeal, software or user interface, controlling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}