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Merged Tesla (i.e. Musk) being naughty?

Like any thread anywhere that addresses any of Musk's questionable behavior or decisions his wives are here in force to protect his good name.

Genius or not, he's a boor not so far removed from our current idiot child in chief in D.C. - he certainly has shown far more ability than Trump to build successful enterprises and a similar lack of awareness that public behavior can have negative impact on those same enterprises and their personal lives. They also share the fundamental flaw of not being able to take any sort of criticism.

All in all, Trump is a danger to our country and Musk is a danger to himself and his investors.
 
Roboramma said:
I watched that podcast live, he didn't seem particularly deranged to me.
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"Increasingly" is the key word there. Wild claims almost beyond count. Pedo diver. Going to go private. Crazy long shifts. Dope on podcast leading to 8% fall in share value?
 
Roger Ramjets said:
You might be surprised to learn that not everybody who wants an electric car is a wild-eyed greenie trying to save the World. Some of us just want to enjoy a more advanced technology that drives better, costs less to run, is more convenient, needs less maintenance and doesn't smell.
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Count me in that camp. My wife drives about 20 miles a day on most days and maybe 100 miles on weekends if we are running errands in her car. But for long trips we almost always take my truck because we are often taking big things with us or towing or will need to shift big things or tow when we get to where we are going.

Occasionally we take a trip in her car that is 250 miles, but not since we upgraded my truck. If we could find one decent charging station about halfway along that trip that had a nice restroom and a decent snack counter I would feel fine taking an electric car on that trip.

But as we are, I don't see any need to replace her commuter with another gas commuter. If she upgrades even to something like the Leaf she will never have to go to the gas station again. Her life will get easier and our only sacrifice would be not taking her car on a trip we rarely take her car on until we find a decent recharging station along that trip.

I think the never going to the gas station again would outweigh that for her.
 
BStrong said:
Like any thread anywhere that addresses any of Musk's questionable behavior or decisions his wives are here in force to protect his good name.

Genius or not, he's a boor not so far removed from our current idiot child in chief in D.C. - he certainly has shown far more ability than Trump to build successful enterprises and a similar lack of awareness that public behavior can have negative impact on those same enterprises and their personal lives. They also share the fundamental flaw of not being able to take any sort of criticism.

All in all, Trump is a danger to our country and Musk is a danger to himself and his investors.
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Very well put.

Although I do worry that if Tesla fails some people may see it as a failure of the entire idea of electric cars. I hope I'm wrong.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Very well put.

Although I do worry that if Tesla fails some people may see it as a failure of the entire idea of electric cars. I hope I'm wrong.
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I like Tesla's as products, and other manufacturers have jumped into the electric vehicle market seriously enough that even if Tesla goes TU (and I hope they don't) the EV will survive without the Tesla.
 
BStrong said:
I like Tesla's as products, and other manufacturers have jumped into the electric vehicle market seriously enough that even if Tesla goes TU (and I hope they don't) the EV will survive without the Tesla.
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The more I ponder it the more I think you are right. VW moving from diesel really gave the EV even more momentum. And BMW has moved away from hydrogen as of late. Maybe Honda is still toying with hydrogen, but I think most manufacturers are seeing the EV as the future.
 
Someone tell Musk the whole "rebel,edgy CEO" sthick has gotten old.
it's become almost personality cult;me, I am old fashioned and don't trust CEO's who resort to stupid stunts to get publicity.
 
Klimax said:
What am I missing?
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One has been in the car business for a century with the support of one of the largest manufactures in the world for the last few decades.

The other still insists it is not a car company but a tech company.

Which of those is best suited to produce 300,000 vehicles per year?
 
CNBC said:
The U.S. Air Force has begun looking into Elon Musk apparently smoking weed on a podcast, a source at the military branch told CNBC on Friday.

Musk's SpaceX provides services for the Air Force, with multiple high-value contracts. Marijuana use is prohibited for someone with a government security clearance, Fox Business reported, and is the central issue in the Air Force's inquiry.

An Air Force spokesperson, in a statement to CNBC, said: "We will need time to determine the facts and the appropriate process to handle the situation."
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/air-force-is-looking-into-elon-musks-pot-smoking-source.html
 
GlennB said:
"Increasingly" is the key word there. Wild claims almost beyond count. Pedo diver. Going to go private. Crazy long shifts. Dope on podcast leading to 8% fall in share value?
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Maybe. But on the other hand, why go private at $420 when you can act like a clown for a while and go public at $300?
 
BStrong said:
Like any thread anywhere that addresses any of Musk's questionable behavior or decisions his wives are here in force to protect his good name.

Genius or not, he's a boor not so far removed from our current idiot child in chief in D.C. - he certainly has shown far more ability than Trump to build successful enterprises and a similar lack of awareness that public behavior can have negative impact on those same enterprises and their personal lives. They also share the fundamental flaw of not being able to take any sort of criticism.

All in all, Trump is a danger to our country and Musk is a danger to himself and his investors.
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Just wait til he goes full Bond villain. You'll see, you'll all see!
 
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Musk seems to be like his hero ,Nikolas Tesla; a genius one minute, who makes a total idiot of himself the next.
And people are going to start questioning his ablity to run a company on a day to day bsis if he keeps this silly crap up.
Not that that will hurt him with his personality cult,though.
 
Dr. Keith said:
One has been in the car business for a century with the support of one of the largest manufactures in the world for the last few decades.

The other still insists it is not a car company but a tech company.

Which of those is best suited to produce 300,000 vehicles per year?
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And the question arises if Musk is a brilliant inventor and developer of technology, but who is not very good at actually getting a product into mass production.
 
BStrong said:
Like any thread anywhere that addresses any of Musk's questionable behavior or decisions his wives are here in force to protect his good name.

Genius or not, he's a boor not so far removed from our current idiot child in chief in D.C. - he certainly has shown far more ability than Trump to build successful enterprises and a similar lack of awareness that public behavior can have negative impact on those same enterprises and their personal lives. They also share the fundamental flaw of not being able to take any sort of criticism.

All in all, Trump is a danger to our country and Musk is a danger to himself and his investors.
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Musk ironically strikes me as being the same as Nikolas Tesla:soneone who can be a genius one day, but just batcrap crazy the next.
You have to wonder if it's not the classic case of someone who was brilliant in setting up a company, but is not very good at running it on a day to day basis. Running a company once it is established is simply not as exciting or dramatic as growing a company in it's early days.
 
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