He delivered the Roadster. He delivered one of the highest rated, safest, highest performance cars in history with the S. He's delivering the 3. He's very clearly going to deliver on the semi-truck and the new Roadster.
He delivered on dramatic battery distance capability for the S and 3, proving a lot of skeptics wrong. There was near universal skepticism that an electric car could do what the S proved it could in terms of distance, until Musk & Co. delivered on that.
From early on, few thought Tesla as a business would make it this far. Survival was unexpected, much less thriving. Instead, they're chasing down $15 to $18 billion in sales for fiscal 2018. Up from $3 billion in 2014. And they've completely altered the entire multi-trillion dollar automobile industry, refocusing it nearly entirely on an all-electric future for every automaker.
He delivered on the Australian power arrangement. In fact, it has worked so well, Australia is interested in more and bigger arrangements.
He delivered on Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and reusable rockets. All of which proved a lot of skeptics wrong. Almost nobody thought SpaceX would pull off reusable rockets in the beginning.
All in all, extraordinarily embarrassing for the people that have repeatedly doubted Musk. His batting average is tremendous when it comes to actually delivering, this is especially true given the nature of the things in question.
That is debatable. The goal was to be delivering 5000 by last December. They've currently delivered something like 200 out of a half-million preorders. I like what Tesla is doing but people absolutely should be skeptical of Musk w.r.t. Tesla.
They’ve been abundantly clear since the test payload was announced that it was not actually going to Mars, but rather into a heliocentric orbit with an aphelion around Mars’s orbit.
Are you under the impression that mistakes never get made in rocket science? Because a naive reading of your comment would indicate strong agreement with me, i.e. rocket science is really hard and mistakes are made.
Missing Mars and not knowing what are you doing is just the latest example...
Musk is where hype goes to die...