Patrick Boyle is the ideal choice for explaining the business of Elon Musk
West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more) 2025-04-11
I've already referred this video in a previous post about Musk using his AI company to make himself whole after the Twitter fiasco, and I plan to come back to it when we get around to discussing the New York Times finally catching on to what some of us have been saying about the true value proposition of Tesla for years now. Squeezing one more post in might be overkill, but I really wanted to share a couple more quotes.
Another reason people might not be buying Teslas is that, with the rate at which parts are falling off Cybertrucks, there’s really no urgency to buy one. If you want one, you could just start collecting the parts from the side of the road. After about a year, you’d have enough to assemble your own. In many ways, the Cybertruck is like a reverse kid’s car — they deliver you a fully assembled truck, but over time, you end up with a collection of parts in boxes in your garage.
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Now, of course, I'm no naysayer. Long-term viewers know how positive I've been about the Hyperloop at the heart of the Line City in Saudi Arabia, and if it wasn't for the functionality of Musk's Hyperloop, the whole thing would make no sense. In a totally unrelated side note, Elon Musk told Fox News on Thursday that the administration is going to go after people pushing lies about Tesla. So, just to be clear, I expect all of the abovementioned projects to be delivered next year on schedule, and I think that they'll be great.
Well worth your time.
Here's an example of Boyle's "positive" coverage of Neom and the hyperloop.