has always been a big supporter of Elon Musk and Tesla. Our opinions might have been dented a bit lately by Elon’s love affair with Twitter and the massive drop in the value of its shares, but no one can deny that the Incredible Mister Musk has almost singlehandedly sparked the global transition to electric cars. Yes, BMW and Nissan were there at the beginning of the modern EV era, but Tesla was what everyone was talking about.
“Musk is an example of how the fetishization of tech start-ups and their leaders can eventually lead those leaders to making bad decisions,” Patrick McQuown, executive director of entrepreneurship at Towson University in Maryland, said in an email to Ewing. “To me, the insistence on stainless steel is a manifestation of his belief that he has some unique understanding of the market and that the market will buy whatever he offers because it comes from the mind of Elon Musk.
So did the Tesla semi. How'd that turn out for Daimler?
It will be built. It will go on sale. Tesla has solved tough problems in the past. To the person who thinks Tesla has lost their first mover advantage. They are moving to 3rd generation 4680 cells, structural battery packs, and megacastings. The Model Y will soon be the…
Lol...right, which is why in 2022 Tesla had TWO vehicles in the top 7 selling cars globally
This alone justifies the unique design of the Cybertruck. They'll get it, eventually.
'Tesla and electric cars have plenty of skeptics on the auto industry' Circa 2008
Skeptics are a dime a dozen. Let's remember that Tesla with very little money was able to build the world's best and most prolific EV company even though Ford GM TOYOTA VOLKSWAGEN MERCEDES et al had hundreds of billions of $$ and massive mfg & distribution networks. elonmusk