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lenge – the complexity of supply chains, of manufacturing,
of the battery design. It was like working through a maze,”
Straubel said.^59 “Pretty much everything went wrong,” Elon
added. But no one outside of the company knew what was
happening because Tesla developed the DarkStar in secret.
“Silicon Valley is a great place to run a secret car company,”
Eberhard said. “Nobody expected something to sprout up
in Northern California, so no one came looking.”^272