Hiking subscriptions, making robots, and selling fewer cars? Tesla is acting like a tech company in more ways than one.

Tesla dominated the electric vehicle industry by the mid-2010s with sleek, fast cars that helped combat the public perception that EVs were severely limited by short ranges.

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