Too Long; Didn't Read
It took 14 years for Tesla to pass Ford's market cap; Ford is valued at $61.5 billion. In 2018, Tesla went through what Musk dubbed "production hell" (the attempt of the company to ramp up manufacturing), which brought it very close to bankruptcy (a few days away). Lucid motor delivered just 679 vehicles on 37,000+ reservations, in the same period, Tesla delivered 254,695 vehicles.