No they did not. > EVs are over a century old. But not an economic success and there was (and still is to be frank) no successful EV industry besides Tesla. A

No they did not. > EVs are over a century old. But not an economic success and there was (and still is to be frank) no successful EV industry besides Tesla. A lot of fanfare with little results. > SpaceX was recreating NASA research. NASA and competitors dismissed any idea of landing rockets or even reusability in the first place. It was deemed a failed idea. This is why the SLS has been created by NASA as reusability was deemed a failure. On the other items besides PayPal, they aren't successes yet so I'll reserve judgement. On the whole "jettisoned" stuff there's a lot of conflicting reports on that and he wasn't fired.