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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Elon Musk
« Reply #30 on: April 22, 2022, 05:32:51 pm »
I think Musk has been the single most important individual in transforming electric vehicles from a niche product for dweebs into a mainstream commercially viable enterprise that will largely replace internal combustion vehicles within our lifetimes.  That's a very significant achievement regardless of whether you like his politics or his Twitter feed.

Sure Tesla has done a lot of R&D to improve EV tech to their credit, but Tesla is not the EV for the working man, it's a luxury brand designed for the type of people who need to show off the fact that they own an iphone and a Canada Goose jacket in order to make people think they are trendy, rich, and cool .

Musk has had the goal of being the next Steve Jobs that all the trendy kids worship like a tech God.  It's narcissistic BS.  He isn't going to change the world selling overpriced impractical cars that the working class can't afford.  Have you seen the Tesla truck? Who the **** is going to buy that?  A plumber or an urban hipster?  Me thinks Elon has spent too much time living amongst the hipsters in Silicon Valley and lost sight of the big picture.

We're only going to save the world when buying an EV appeals to the types of people who drive a Ford or a Toyota Corolla. And Donna the Walmart cashier doesn't care if their car can run a Super Nintendo emulator.
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