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- Elon Musk and Henry Ford share a lot of similarities.
- Both men have revolutionized the automotive industry.
- They also both love stoking public controversy.
One hundred years after Henry Ford reshaped the automotive industry with the assembly line, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing much the same for electric cars.
Musk is a once-in-a-generation figure whose legacy is becoming complicated in real time – not unlike the Ford founder who revolutionized vehicle production.