The anti-Tesla phenomenon is seriously disturbing
By now in 2023, it’s just plain disingenuous to claim that Musk and his teams at Tesla aren’t innovating to the max. Model Y is the globally top selling car of any sort right now. Even after price cuts they have the top profit margins in the industry. And it’s the most efficient user of electricity — and thus greenest and cheapest to operate — compared to all other EV SUVs by far. And safest. Plus Musk just live demoed a highly gutsy and impressive AI breakthrough: FSD driving streamed live for 45 minutes, travelling to semi-random real-life locations all over San Francisco, based 100% on neural network training. No hard coding. No labels on what is a person, a car, a traffic light. Camera only.
Sometimes Musk is, I hate to admit it, a complete jerk, especially if you’re left-leaning, (as I am, yet essentially ‘community-minded centrist’ is my preferred label) and even intrinsically.
It sets to nought Musk’s fun, even loveable, geeky side, his apparently genuine desire for free speech (he shares many lefty stances despite his growing right-leaning centrism) and undoubted interest in the success of humanity as a whole. Supposedly EVs would be no good. Never high performing. Not green anyway. Never made in volume. Never long range. Never high quality. Never competitive. Never affordable. Never profitable. Never high margin. Never for semis. Just a fad. Not in demand (LOL). Stockpiling inventory (LOL). Never mainstream. Never the top seller.
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