I admit that replacing the Tesla logo with that of another company would have never occurred to me, I sort of assumed it would be illegal. Some variety of fraud.
I wonder if Musk will try to talk Trump into making it illegal?
A friend’s father would grouse about how he wished that he got the LX version of a car instead of the downgrade. They gave him the LX badge and put it on his car as a joke present. Having it on the car isn’t illegal. Using it to later sell the car as an LX is.
Don’t even think about removing the labels from your mattress!!!
U Mass kid allegedly firebombs two Cybertrucks while home in Kansas on spring break. They arrested him after he returned to MA.
Holliston, MA police looking for someone who vandalized a Tesla there. I have a suggestion for them!
Minneapolis man who was caught on camera keying six Teslas will not be charged; sent to diversion for restitution; DA says that’s how her office normally deals with first-time, non-violent property offences; takes criticism from police chief and state legislators.
It appears the person was doing it for political reasons. What’s the DA’s position on that? What if somebody starts to attack the property of city officials because they don’t like their policies?
What does the DA consider political terrorism?
One should drive an electric vehicle because it makes good sense.
If that a was more of a virtue signaling device, well that sucks for you.
But the math hasn’t changed.
But I am a bit of proud contrarian, so F@#$ whoever says otherwise.
“What makes it so juicy is that he’s being pecked to death by the very people who put him on the pedestal in the first place. The eco hippies.”
That’s not a bad summation to the EV phenomenon.
But Musk literally created this market. It didn’t exist in it’s present day form without him and it went beyond the car itself. The nationwide charging stations were an integral part of the startup process. He built massive battery factories and powerwalls were an extension of that. There would be no EV’s without him. NONE.
I’m not a big fan of Musk because he hasn’t mastered his Asperger’s Syndrome. He lacks the social skills needed for public interface. But his cars were bought by virtue signalling gentrified eco hippies because they were wicked fast vehicles that were fun to drive and saved the world.
You mean like arresting judges?
Did they? Save the world? Just checking.
signed,
virtue-signalling gentrified eco-hippie
This is an example of what I’ve heard called the “the Nazis had a very enlightened forestry policy” phenomenon. Even the most horrible people can on occasion have a good idea or do a good thing; that doesn’t make them good people or justify everything else they do.
I was with you until this part. It’s absurd to suggest that there would be no EVs today without Musk. The big car makers would probably have been slower and more cautious to enter the market if Tesla had not paved the way but they would certainly be making electric vehicles today. The imperatives of climate change make it unavoidable. And it’s doubtful that Musk actually has Asperger’s. More likely he’s using it as a crutch to excuse his sociopathy and generally being a jerk.
There was nothing on the horizon prior to Tesla in modern history. The closest thing was GM’s EV1 and that was a miserable failure. The modern EV started by Musk who took little flashlight sized Li batteries and soldered them together.
It wasn’t an easy task. It was a labor intensive reliability train wreck to pull that off. And to make it publicly useful to early adopters It required a charging network. This is very similar to Edison’s creation of the infrastructure needed to bring the invention of light bulbs into homes. There wasn’t an electrical grid in place.
The imperatives of climate change do not make EV’s unavoidable. We could be driving hydrogen based cars or some other non-carbon fueled car but there were no innovators working on both a viable power source or the infrastructure to back it up. What Musk did was decades ahead of every automaker in the world. DECADES. All the world has done is imitate his work.
For the record, Elon was not involved in, as you put it:
The actual original owners and creators of Tesla were the ones that made the breakthroughs, and Elon was one of the earlier, and certainly bigger funders but wasn’t the one behind the breakthroughs. The US Department of Energy was also a key funder, so while we can engage in endless speculation, to say Elon is the “key” factor is debatable. Although he’s remarkably skilled at self promotion, and Tesla promotion as a side effect.
He was in it a year into the introduction of the company in 2003 and quickly became the CEO of it. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were gone by 2008.
He was the one with the vision and business expertise to make it happen.
Then, by that standard, you accept it’s 100% his idiocy, poor business sense, and corruption that’s tanking it right this second?
No, that would be the Democratic Party’s need to demonize him for his association with Trump.
Next you’ll be telling me he has nothing to do with Space X’s lead in rocket technology because he didn’t work on the rocket parts.
And then to make it fail.
Tesla is hardly a failure even if the CT is the world’s ugliest truck.
I’m saying your earlier statement is factually incorrect. The “key” breakthrough you mentioned was NOT created by him, nor did it occur when he had major creative/scientific input. I didn’t deny his role in funding or boosting the company, but that means the massive missteps he has made since are equally his responsibility.