For this to succeed:
1. Needs a good range
2. Need places to charge within 1 hour to full
3. Easily serviceable with easily sourced parts

Given tesla never managed to keep up logistics with the cybertrukkk, the last point will kill this. When you're dropping $200k and you have to get it towed to a tesla repair shop and the parts are still being made, it's just plain stupid to invest in these.
It's probably being rushed as we speak, so I'm looking forward to hearing a 50% failure rate on these things.

I really hope you're kidding on your comment. Elon is too busy playing "totally not a car manufacturer" and the shell game to hide the debt. I doubt it will be done at all by now.

He does lie constantly, and calling it "over optimistic" is simplifying it too far, and giving too much benefit of the doubt.
There is no way FSD will ever be a thing with just cameras. Having your tesla work as a taxi overnight? Not optimism, pure bullshit.
Same with that stupid robot, it's going to basically be tesla fan boy barebones real dolls, its too little too late.
Mars can't be colonised no matter what he says.
Twitter is not a haven for free speech, as evidenced by anyone who is not right wing or criticises musk directly. Hell, even the cybertrukk capabilities were mainly lies, and is a glorified sedan with glued on metal panels.

So yeah, he's a liar.

Given the rapid decline in quality once he grew his dragonsteel org, I wouldn't hold out much hope.
He produced and influenced the screenplay for the wheel of time series, so you'd probably get around the same quality or less.

Sanderson up to about 5 years ago was probably one of the best fantasy writers - good pacing, complex storylines interwoven well, and good planned arcs within each setting.
Then he started to take on help, started to collaborate, and got caught up with the whole merch and IP money spinning.
The end of the wax and wayne series? It was an ending, but was more busy with building the cosmere.
The last reckoners book? You can tell that this was a collaboration, as it had way less complexity and dragged on.
The last stormlight book? Awful. Lots of additions thrown in to the point where I thought he was bringing in extra monsters so he could sell the figurines. Don't get me wrong, the first 3 were absolutely amazing, the 4th not so good, but the consensus is that the last is just an incoherent mess. Probably from all the cooks involved.

MAGA spotted.
So much stupidity and ignorance said so confidently. Can't wait for the US to break all new records for people dying of preventable diseases, but at least you showed them darn libs, eh?

Why is this even a story?
Known constant liar said something.
News outlet reported that he said it.
Who cares?

Given that 33% of american voters think that whatever trump says is somehow reality, maybe there should be some policing of information or speech.
Donald the dove is doing so well, and has literally blamed the 2025 economic figures on Biden, AND taken credit for the stronger 2024 figures.

Not even close..
The BBC has been run at the top by mainly conservative people, and their current politics head is a true conservative.
I firmly believe that the BBC and its constant pushing UKIP outrage nonsense caused brexit
For the 14 years that the tories were in power recently, the BBC reported everything the conservatives said as fact, and any news story about other parties was always negative.
QT has always been riddled with tories, not just the panel but also the audience members.
It boils down to that the right wing are snowflakes that think that mentioning LGBTQ is somehow left wing bias, and that's why they think the BBC is left leaning.

" In my experience bureaucracy is a function of size, not ownership"
I've been in a few large corporations, latest one is the biggest. The bureaucracy statement is true from the 30+ years I've been working,
I've been subcontracted out a fair few times to government departments, and the only things done worse than private companies is the extremely understaffed departments and the sheer lack of money to improve anything.

Since the whole MBA fascination with profitable next quarter at any cost, that is the most inefficient way to get anything done.

Flat earther style denial here.
Go to youtube. Search for FSD.
Now watch them. Most are done by fans who are showing off this how "great" it is.
Then see how many times they have to intervene.
Then realise that cameras can be easily blinded or fooled, and that not having other sensors is just plain dumb.

Of course, you won't do that, you've already bought into the hype. I bet you even think that your glorious CEO isn't far right....

It also took out most of the compound surrounding it, another quality decision by musk and fellows.
As others have pointed out many times before, stop trying to normalize this nonsense. You don't need catastrophic failures to be able to get to where you need to be, as evidenced by every other vehicle manufacturer.
It is the height of hypocrisy to whale on others for "wasteful government subsidies" while you've literally wasted 100s of millions on launches that should not have gone ahead.
So please, all you musk techbros, realise that your guy is not clever, and there is no progress in exploding rockets. No matter how much copium you inhale from twitter.

Lol, X is only free speech when you align with its owner. There's a reason why its turned into a cesspit of far right nonsense, and grok had a meltdown due to elon meddling in its default prompt.

Posh privately schooled out of touch ex-politician who literally torpedoed his political party for a chance at power.
Nothing to see here, move along. Are we that starved for content that we have to give so much oxygen to idiots and their uninformed opinions?
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Funnily enough, do not believe the brexit poster above. I have multiple family members in the police. Surprisingly enough, the express and mail actually lie about this stuff, and there aren't "no-go areas" or rape gangs roaming the streets. 9 out of 10 sex crimes are performed by white men.