Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

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Originally Posted by Kal-El

I just wish Tesla could succeed without massive taxpayer subsidies. A Tesla costs around $100K obviously leaving it only to the very wealthy to own. Sadly, the middle class are pouring their hard earned money into Tesla when they themselves couldn't dream of ever owning one. For most taxpayers, their whole house is only worth 2 Tesla's.

At this point, Musk has received about $4,900,000,000.00 from us to keep his dreams alive.
I'm all for the new tech, but they really need to succeed on their own.

And yes, it is overdue for mainstream models. We need a Tesla under $30K. And maybe someday under $20k but I doubt it.

From what I understand its all about the batteries now for Musk. He plans to build them and sell them to the other automotive manufacturers. And also to market them for home generated electricity from solar panels which will put the utilities out of business. So they hope!

Toyota says the future is fuel cells NOT electric cars with batteries. If so Musk is a dead duck! We shall see...

Yeah the last thing we need are cars we cant afford! But we have the $20,000 Yaris.

Well if someone gave to a billion dollars you would take it too. Musk doesnt want SpaceX to go public because then it would be out of his control. What he wants to do is put a million people on Mars.

Read the book its great!

PS Model S on Edmunds lists for $71,000.