But the essence of getting, of revolutionizing space travel is reusability. If you throw the rocket away every time, the cost of access to space is extremely high. With respect to electric cars, there weren't any electric cars when we started making them. Really, you couldn't buy any to the best of my knowledge. So with Tesla, we wanted to make electric cars compelling and affordable. That was the goal. (03:01–03:08)
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