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The projects promised to be life altering for all mankind, they ended up being not even life altering for super rich Americans considering that Teslas are just
by JumpinJack_Cash 9mo ago
The projects promised to be life altering for all mankind, they ended up being not even life altering for super rich Americans considering that Teslas are just EVs which without FSD are just regular cars with a different propellent that were made for political purposes and virtue signaling
The EV revolution has always been something almost dystopic : Trillions of dollars spent in order to not have the slightest amount of quality of life improvement, if anything a worse quality of life because you buy an EV that you cannot use 24/7/365 whereas you can an ICE car for much less .
As soon as something kinda elegant and hopeful as far as collective quality of life improvement is concerned (AI/ChatGPT) came around.....the whole green/EV revolution rightfully went out the window
If Musk was this genius you guys make him to be at 50 and with all the capital he burned he should have at least one company that if you disappeared the world would look drastically different, like if you disappeared Microsoft or Apple or Exxon or Aramco or Amazon or IBM....the world would come to a screeching halt.
Disappear one of Musk companies and everything would be the same as he's always involved in these sort of aspirational companies which have this great vision always 5 years into the future that never materialize into anything tangible or that improves the quality of life like the company I mentioned earlier
- qaq 9mo agowell Tesla did jump start the EV revolution not life altering but is pretty important. IF SpaceX gets spaceship right that will be a huge leap forward.
- bigwheels 9mo agoSir, your comment appears to qualify as "moving the goal post". TSLA never delivered a single inexpensive electric vehicle, and just last week abandoned all high-end efforts (S/X/CT discontinued). All TSLA manufactures now are overpriced "meh" transport boxes. Yes, TSLA was early, and now they are far, far behind the competition. Can we evaluate based on the stated goals, or why does the criteria keep shifting?
- qaq 9mo agoTesla's goal was to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy by building a comprehensive ecosystem of electric vehicles (EVs), solar generation, and battery storage. Looks to me they delivered on 2 of the 3
- jacquesm 9mo agoAnd now Tesla is hindering that transition.
- qaq 9mo agoSure by building largest charging network and allowing to use their patents they are hindering that transition really badley.
- jacquesm 9mo agoNo, by blocking other entrants to the US market through Elon's personal connections with the administration.
- qaq 9mo agothere are 100+ EV models available in US. The only "blocked" entries are Chinese brands which are skirting tariffs by using owned European brands e.g. Polestar, Volvo etc.
- JumpinJack_Cash 9mo agoYeah keep believing that...they wanted to become the Standard oil / Microsoft of EVs. But they failed to achieve the market share of Microsoft and not to mention the lackuster significance of EVs compared to Personal Computers and GUI You can attack Tesla and Musk from 1000s different angles due to their shananigans except the one true badge of honor for a company and CEO: Sherman Act / Anti Trust for 90+ % market share in a sector which ought to be competitive