For me the thing that soured me on him was his fixation on Tesla being the solution to all urban transportation problems and his loathing of public transportation.
He lived and worked in the Bay Area and L.A. - he's intimately aware of how pathologically bad car-oriented low-density city planning is, which is why the most economically successful place in the world is so hilariously bad to travel in.
But his hatred for transit demonstrates an almost absurdly opaque blind-spot for somebody who wants to get his businesses involved in urban transportation planning.
edit: corrected his experience with California commutes after reply informed me he was no longer involved in SF bay.
Tesla really should take over the electric bicycle market. I'd be a musk convert then. But seeing the Cyber Truck, I just can't see that as a real future for our cities.
I'm not sure what value Tesla could add to ebikes (or full-speed motorbikes) besides the cachet they'd bring as a name-brand business - like autopilot wouldn't be a thing. There are zillions of commodity manufacturers building eBikes, what can Tesla add to that?
The only big advantage I could see is their charging infrastructure.
He lived and worked in the Bay Area and L.A. - he's intimately aware of how pathologically bad car-oriented low-density city planning is, which is why the most economically successful place in the world is so hilariously bad to travel in.
But his hatred for transit demonstrates an almost absurdly opaque blind-spot for somebody who wants to get his businesses involved in urban transportation planning.
edit: corrected his experience with California commutes after reply informed me he was no longer involved in SF bay.