Posted on 10/27/2018 6:55:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
No it wouldn't. Those are long standing mega-defense firms with history, profits, assets, supply chains etc. that can handle massive production.
Tesla is battery company led by a whimsical eccentric that can't properly get its product to market or turn a *real* profit.
And the discrete Space X government contracts trump all the little stuff. Unfortunately it puts him in the too big to fail category just like these others are. There is stuff going on we don’t see. There always is...
Boring Company to cut an 18 mile tunnel connecting O’Hare Airport terminals to downtown Chicago.
Burned those shorting the Tesla stock.
SpaceX valuation up 270% for investors of the privately held company over 5 years.
I'd enjoy an under-Lake link from perhaps Muskegon to O'Hare, not least because it would save a load of time when visiting the relatives in Wisconsin.
Dude reminds me a lot of Nikolai Tesla. Brilliant but insane.
Military wants a LEO satellite constellation. Musk is approved to launch a 4,425 unit swarm by 2027 for commercial use. Not a big step further out to cater to DARPA’s new needs.
Musk comes up with some very simple innovations that end up being key to success. Check out some in the Boring Company FAQ.
https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
he will prevail
Yep... “for commercial use” is debatable. He’s set with discrete funding already. He is our new contracted space delivery program. Right up there with all the other major defense contractors.
Preston Tucker Junior was pretty dense to believe the big boys were ever going to let him play.
Kids in elementary school make functioning electric motors all the time. The propulsion system in an electric car was never going to be the difficult part, the build quality is the key. I see Teslas all the time and the body on every one of them has build quality on par with those VW beetle-based kit cars you can buy in the back pages from Road & Track magazine. It will take him years, decades maybe to equal the build quality of the Germans and the Japanese, but they can match his powerplant any time they feel like it.
And if he thinks large numbers of Americans are ever going to give up gasoline for a (battery power-only) vehicle that takes longer to charge than it does to drive off that charge, he’s just ditzy.
Kids in elementary school make functioning electric motors all the time. The propulsion system in an electric car was never going to be the difficult part, the build quality is the key.
I see Teslas all the time and the body on every one of them has build quality on par with those VW beetle-based kit cars you can buy in the back pages from Road & Track magazine.
It will take him years, decades maybe to equal the build quality of the Germans and the Japanese, but they can match his powerplant any time they feel like it.
And don’t forget that Elon is currently being sued for accusing a person involved in the Thai cave rescue of being a pedophile because the guy said that his rescue submarine idea would never work. Then Elon was dumb enough to double-down on his insult instead of saying, “Sorry, things got heated there!” or something to that effect. Have fun when this goes before a judge.
Yes, he has a real talent for getting the government to pay his bills and give him a comfortable living. I think he’s nuts for not cashing out right now and skipping the country, that’s how these guys usually roll.
MySpace was once worth billions and had a kazillion users, too.
No, the two men could not be any more different. You are the victim of advertising hype. Musk has not come up with any revolutionary ideas that can compare with the three phase electric motor and power grid that will change the course of human history. And Tesla was not a successful business shyster.
not Nikolai Tesla....Howard Hughes of his generation however...even right down to the spookiness..
I always seem to screw up my html when one finger typing on a self correcting phone. Maybe that is what happened with Musk’s Twitter outbursts.
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