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In response to an excellent and attention-grabbing article from Jennifer Sensiba relating to Tesla failures brought on by Elon Musk, one reader, Roger Lambert, had a critique and his personal clear tackle why the Cybertruck has failed. He additionally provides a number of extra Elon Musk failures which have damage Tesla. To finish, he brings up the unlucky state of affairs for a big group of individuals usually forgotten and ignored on this entire dialogue. Right here’s Roger’s full remark:
“The boring, modular design of vans is perhaps dangerous for effectivity and dangerous for individuals who need one thing a bit extra unique, but it surely unlocks economies of scale that producers desperately must compete.”
Oh, c’mon. Financial system of scale comes from mass manufacturing. There’s nothing inherently magical about an 80 year-old box-on-frame design. And the Cybertruck’s enchantment had little to do with being “unique” — it’s ugly from many angles.
It’s promised enchantment was that it was a big EV pickup that would comfortably seat 5 folks, with a big mattress, with nice vary, with nice efficiency and utility, with an electrical drive practice that will final 1,000,000 miles, that it wouldn’t rust (vital within the NE USA) for a greater than truthful worth.
If Musk had delivered what he promised, the Cybertruck would have tens of millions of gross sales, and no one could be speaking hooey about “unlocking financial system of scale” of box-on-frame.
However — he did NOT ship. I’m out the curiosity on my $100 deposit. Tesla is out billions. This alone ought to have resulted in his departure from the corporate. He has made a LOT of blunders at Tesla not talked about on this article:
* His obsessive insistence that the X have gull-wing doorways delayed that automobile for years.
* His judgement that LIDAR wouldn’t be helpful for self-driving.
* His choice to take a position billions in typical batteries in-house, dismissing solid-state batteries.
* His interpersonal obnoxiousness ensuing within the brain-drain of too many proficient folks.
We want not go into his hijinks at Twitter or his ham-fisted antics with DOGE. The person, and now the corporate, is fractally poisonous. That Tesla the corporate is poisonous is a bloody disgrace and tragic nearly past phrases for the 125,000 staff it employs.
Addendum: One other commenter, Randy Wester, had a fairly humorous and pointed response to that longer remark. Right here it’s:
“… choice to take a position billions in typical batteries in-house, dismissing solid-state batteries”
Ought to have purchased Toyota inventory as a substitute of Twitter.
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