Whatever his companies are doing or whatever else you don't like about him, he is a brilliant political engineer. Before Musk bought Tesla, policy-makers in th

Whatever his companies are doing or whatever else you don't like about him, he is a brilliant political engineer. Before Musk bought Tesla, policy-makers in the US and Europe were all "electric vehicles are a nice idea, but simply impractical and unfeasible. So our vehicle manufacturers tell us". In the short span of ten years, electric vehicles have become mandatory in many Western countries, starting sometime in the next 10 to 15 years, and they are headed that way in many more. And that is down to Musk. Whatever his--many and grievous--personal faults may be, and whatever else he does short of mass murder, he deserves our gratitude for this alone.