You mentioned the $35k Model 3, which I think is the worst since so many deposits were collected on this promise. This spring it will be 3 years since those deposits were collected, including mine (since refunded at about the 2-year anniversary). He also keeps pushing back the timeline for deposit holders. It has been 3-6 months away for over a year now. And there are anecdotes (which I know aren't data) of difficulty lately getting deposits refunded.
FSD (Full Self Driving) option in general is looking like vaporware. I'm wondering if Tesla is going to need to refund the money people paid for that option. It's no longer offered.
It was promised for ~6 weeks, ~6 weeks ago. So that should be out any day now, right?
He was also going to fix Flint's drinking water. To his credit, he recently made a charitable donation instead, but it was originally phrased as engineering help.
Other things:
Battery swap - https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event (interestingly, NIO in China has this approach working).
Coast to coast autonomous drive by 2018: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teslas-autonomous-car-will-dr...
FSD (Full Self Driving) option in general is looking like vaporware. I'm wondering if Tesla is going to need to refund the money people paid for that option. It's no longer offered.
Here's the latest promise, about Summon mode with Tesla: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1057871356367269888
It was promised for ~6 weeks, ~6 weeks ago. So that should be out any day now, right?
He was also going to fix Flint's drinking water. To his credit, he recently made a charitable donation instead, but it was originally phrased as engineering help.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/12/elon-musk-fl...
And of course there's the whole Thai cave torpedo thing which was just... weird.
Edit: oh can't believe I forgot the solar roof. That one is perhaps the closest to outright fraud, since it was unveiled on a Hollywood set with FAKE shingles! https://mansionengineer.com/2018/08/10/elon-musk-tesla-and-t...
I get that we want people like Musk to push boundaries, but I think it's a fine line between what Musk does versus The Simpsons monorail guy.