It’s no secret that I am not an Elon Musk fan. Frequent readers will recognize the hard time I’ve given Tesla’s CEO over the last five years. I won’t list all his, well, let’s call them “foibles,” here — not out of generosity,The first, of course, is that Tesla put electric vehicles on their road to ascendancy. Some might argue we would have gotten there without Elon Musk. I will not.
Call him Steve Job-like evangelist or Bernie Madoff stock manipulator as you like, but the fact remains that,Musk, EVs would not be the dominant force in the automotive market they are today. Hell, without his quirky charisma, they might not be any kind of force at all.His other contribution to the ascendancy of battery power is, of course, Tesla’s Supercharger networ