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RT Captain Eli (@TheCaptainEli)At minute 13 of the Clean Tech Summit (2011), Elon Musk highlighted the immense challenges in founding Tesla amid the 2008 crisis.He stressed that starting a car company is hard even in the best times—and the recent years were far from ideal, with GM’s bankruptcy illustrating the tough environment for a new EV startup.Quote: “A car company is not an easy thing to create at the best of times and the last few years were certainly not the best of times particularly for car compan ...