But enough to drive around in a battery-powered jellybean? Maybe if Tesla released a nice gas-powered pickup truck.
The conspiracy theorist part of my brain wants to think that he couldn’t figure out a way to get right-wingers to buy electric cars so he’s acting in ways that would turn that around for him. He also wants those tax cuts. The bet is progressives will buy them anyway without enough competition. Unfortunately it turns people like me off entirely and I’ll never buy one now as a singular probably useless datapoint.
Doing imaginary culture wars was all it took to get conservatives to begin electric vehicle adoption? I feel like this formula could be applied to climate change or other noble efforts. "The woke hivemind virus is trying to keep all of the vegetables to themselves."
It's interesting. My right wing family also now loves him, but they just love Elon. They would never consider a Tesla because it's what the "left" drive in California, neither of which they want to be associated with.
"he tells it like it is"
And how many of your right wing family is excited about driving an EV? I highly doubt many of the truck drivers who would deliberately drive in front of Teslas "rolling coal" just to be dicks are now thinking "Hey, this Musk guy is great, I need to buy a Tesla".