Read the text and choose all the correct statements.
You’ve probably heard of Tesla. But why is Tesla successful? The start of the 21st century was marked by a boom in clean technology, spurred by several high-profile environmental disasters: smog in Beijing that was so bad people couldn’t see or breathe, arsenic polluting the water in Bangladesh, and hurricanes in the USA, prompting worries about future effects of global warming.
Entrepreneurs launched thousands of green technology companies, and investors kicked in more than $50 billion. However, the rush to cleantech created a bubble. Most cleantech companies failed.
Why is Tesla successful when so many other cleantech companies weren’t? Cleantech entrepreneurs weren’t just seeking business success, they wanted to be “social entrepreneurs”.
A better way to do something good for society is to do something different. The best products are the ones no one else has thought of, which has a lot to do with the answer to the question of why Tesla is successful.
- Most cleantech companies are successful.
- Clean technology was very popular in the beginning of the 21st century.
- People think that environmental disasters are caused by global warming.
- Cleantech developers only wanted their businesses to be profitable.
- It is important to do something new to be successful in business.
- Investors wasted a lot of money on Tesla.