Fairly straight up version from a marketing guy.
"Autopsy" from a sustainability guy.
From about 2011-2017 I was sure a Tesla was going to be my next car. Then the Model 3 (on which I had purchased a "reservation") was very disappointing to me. No dashboard, back window too high, and too wide for my garage. By then I was becoming more and more disappointed that Tesla was not ushering in a new era of EV's, like a Henry Ford, but only making increasingly cranky statement pieces for whitewashing the unsustainable lifestyles of the rich people who buy them.
Back in 2009, I was impressed that Musk had done what others had long said was impossible: and EV with a range similar to a gasoline powered car. It wasn't really that it was impossible, but there weren't enough moneybags to invest in it. Somehow Elon got that done, so I respected him a lot.
Now I've lost all respect. Elon Musk is Ayn Rand in drag and Hitler with a chainsaw. Other people had actually designed the Tesla, all the ideas (and in all his other companies) were nothing new, Musk was simply able to sell them better to the corrupt and stupid capitalists of the western world.
And EV's aren't The Answer anyway, perhaps not even a help if not employed to actually reduce overall environmental destruction. So what if one's car doesn't produce greenhouse gasses but the new infrastructure to build them toasts the planet?
The key point of being sustainable is to give up everything excessive. And Teslas are full of excessive.
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