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Elon is a business man. This is the man that sold his first PC game when in High School, made his first hundred million before 30 selling Paypal, with a personal benefit of about $170 Million; about 10 years later his net worth was $2 Billion in 2012. He took over as CEO of Tesla, created SpaceX, Boring Company, Tesla Solar and led the charge in municipal storage. I would say the man is above average.

Twitter, as he has previously stated, is the defacto “public square”; and he has a message to get out. Allowing free speech, where ideas can be exchanged, is a good thing; imho.

For example, are EV’s the perfect solution for everyone? Nope. But, are they a very reliable, very economical solution for many? Yup.

Power generation is a fundamentally misunderstood commodity. Until the advent of municipal energy storage, the primary profit center of your electrical power company was in Energy Brokerage. Power, not used immediately, is lost forever. Gone. Zip.

Take your portable Honda generator, fill the gas tank, fire it up and turn on a small AC, and you will exchange your gas for AC and circulation for ~10 hours. Turn off the AC, and you have a noise maker for ~10.5 hours. If the energy isn’t used, it’s gone. Same thing for municipal utilities. So, your coal fired plants use what the demand requires, and sells the excess. Power Brokers ship that power all over the USA and Canada, with demand dictating instantaneous prices. Now that we can actually STORE that unused energy, plus we have solar/wind all over; it becomes a very complex problem.

The US Gov has websites that show that energy wise, the EV is comparable to a car that gets ~140 mpg. How many moving parts in your car? If any of over 1,000 part breaks in your engine, or transmission - you come to a stop. EV’s generally have less than a dozen moving parts. No fluids (except window washing fluid), brake pads are only applicable from ~3mph to zero, so brake wear is neglible.

Times are changing everything.