My strategy for mass producing the Model 3 also would have been grounded in reality. And I certainly wouldn't have spent $2.6 billion buying a failing solar installation company with $2.9 billion in debt.

The last few years of Musk's reign over Tesla have been marked by colossal strategic errors made unilaterally in stubborn defiance of conventional wisdom and against the better advice of the experts and specialists he's surrounded by. I don't know why you guys keep defending him, he's incompetent. He has an established track record of paranoia, delusions, cronyism, lies, threats and petty vengeance. For all his claims of Tesla's many enemies, the only legit threat to Tesla's future success is Musk himself. Big boy car companies don't operate this way, and for very good reasons. Very good reasons.

It would be a lot easier to root for Tesla the company if it could be separated from Elon Musk the personality cult.