I doubt he said it was a stupid idea due to the look. It probably has more to do you have to design the car from the ground up to be electric and Lotus won't ha

I doubt he said it was a stupid idea due to the look. It probably has more to do you have to design the car from the ground up to be electric and Lotus won't have the expertise for doing that. Also Tesla, just likes vertical integration in general. I believe they control their whole battery manufacturing pipeline.