“Whether you hate me, like me or are indifferent, do you want the best car, or do you not want the best car?” [Apartheid Manchild] told audiences at an event in November.
Well, for starters I don’t want a car at all. I’d rather use public transit. You know, an actually effective means of reducing emissions.
If I were in the market, yes, I would want the best car. Which is why I’d never buy a Tesla. I’d buy an XPeng or a BYD or the like.
They have happy customers for the Cybertruck. Doesn’t make that any less of an idiotic waste of metal.
And Tesla has a long history of “planning” things that never quite come to be. I won’t be holding my breath on any kind of mass rollout of their semi rigs. If it happens, colour me surprised. Until it happens, though (and I mean really happens, not fake events like the recent robotaxi and optimus one), I will cheerfully say that it won’t happen.
Because looking at Musk’s grand pronouncements, the odds are on my side.
It seems like it mostly comes down to the 4680 batteries - is Tesla really scaling up? They should allow facilitate significant cost and weight improvements over older batteries, and there have been promising announcements this year
Like the promising announcements of full autonomy? Like the promising announcements of … well pretty much everything Apartheid Manchild has announced ever?
Geez, you really need to stop letting that guy have a free ride in your head