A man who everyone bet against but probably did the most in terms of pushing 100% electric cars and making them mainstream and you say he’s fucked the earth?
Listen, 2 years ago I would have said Elon is a clown and Tesla is going to zero.
And I was 100% wrong.
Dude has massive balls and the kind of personality (warts and all) that pushes humanity forward.
We need to nurture people like him, not condemn them.
Building goddamn infrastructure for public transport would put us so much ahead than stupid luxury cars transiting a single person.
Also, did you calculate the production of batteries and their limited reusability into the picture as well? Or the not even close to renewable-only sources of electricity used to recharge the cars?
Well if you can figure out how to actually accomplish a big expansion in public transport, please let us know. People have been trying for decades. You have to get politicians and taxpaying voters on board and that's not so easy.
In the meantime, Tesla is making real progress on decarbonizing transport. And it's not just "stupid luxury cars," the whole idea was to start with that and work their way down to the mass-market as they scaled up mass production and batteries got cheaper, and that plan seems to be progressing nicely.
Batteries can be recycled and Tesla's 4680 cells are designed to make recycling easy. And a recent Yale study found that, even taking all indirect emissions into account, electric cars are far better than gasoline cars: https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/yse-study-finds-el...
> Building goddamn infrastructure for public transport would put us so much ahead than stupid luxury cars transiting a single person.
And he would do that how? Pulbic infrastrucutre is a political problem and I tell you a secret, rich people don't actually control the world.
And living in a country with good public transport, there are still many cars. Juts FYI.
And you need to start EV of in more expensive cars to get the needed margins to make massive investment of batteries and battery supply chain. Like literally anything else, things start expensive and get cheaper over time, I can't believe how people still complain about this with every single new technology.
> Also, did you calculate the production of batteries and their limited reusability into the picture as well?
Yes. People keep making that point as if its a good point. Because it really isn't.
> Or the not even close to renewable-only sources of electricity used to recharge the cars?
Another terrible point. You have to move both renewables and electric transport at the same time. The idea that EV don't matter and they should only be done when the Grid is 100% electric is literally one of the dumbest possible arguments. They clearly have to be done at the same time for any chance of getting there by 2050 (or hopefully before).
Listen, 2 years ago I would have said Elon is a clown and Tesla is going to zero.
And I was 100% wrong.
Dude has massive balls and the kind of personality (warts and all) that pushes humanity forward.
We need to nurture people like him, not condemn them.