Tesla would be proud.
Actually Edison should be the proud one, he was the one that said DC is the way to go.
McBryce.
Yea, you're right. Tesla did originally work for Edison but when he asked Edison for payment for services Edison refused. So he quit and went to work for Westinghouse.
Interesting tidbit: Up until very recently there were several elevators in lower Manhattan that still had DC motors driving them.
Another tidbit: The power company that serves the NYC metro area is called "Consolidated Edison" or "Con Ed" for short.
Don't mistake "Successful" for "Genius". Tesla and Edison were competitors in one of the first "inventors' wars" of the industrial age. Edison was never really that smart; he was a carny barker as much as an inventor. But he did figure out how to apply the "mass production" business model to inventing; he then rode the genius of a great many others at his labs into the history books.
Edison knew that Tesla was right as far as AC being hands-down the only way to do transmission over great distances over land/in air with the technology at hand; his own letters turned up more than 50 years ago showed that. Westinghouse knew it too, but he also knew Tesla's genius came at the price of his altruistic streak (a refusal to give up on the idea of free broadcast power "for the good of mankind") and the resultant flaky nature; he DEMANDED that Edison and Tesla work together on the Hydro project or he would not fund any of the work. He wanted, and rightly so, for Edison's astute business sense to keep Tesla's electrical/electronic genius focused on the task at hand.
Technology has improved, and we can now do HVDC with some reasonable measure of efficiency that was not even thinkable in Edison's time; Tesla understood this on a fundamental level, while Edison still thought it was possible to make DC transmission work at storage-battery voltages if he could just find the right conductor.
As inventors, the two really were not even operating on the same level; Tesla was a savant while Edison was at best a lucky guesser in most cases. If it weren't for Edison's near-sociopathic self-promotion (on one occasion, he was nearly beaten to death by townsfolk after publicly electrocuting the pet of the mayor's beloved daughter in one of his "demonstrations" on the horrors of AC) he would at best be a historical footnote.
There is a tendency to conflate the relationship as something similar to Mozart & Salieri; truth is Edison was nowhere near that, not even in the same league respectively as Salieri. But he sure could SELL what he did "discover".
mnem
Of course this view of history is colored by my own opinion... take with a grain of salt big enough to pickle a dragon.