Fool me once, shame on you, fool me 10 times, shame on me
Wild people are still falling for Musk's fake products. I guess what they say is true, there is a sucker born every minute despite the evidence of the last twenty years. This will never ship.
Falcon 9 - 2010 - the cheapest, most successful, most reliable, most available rocket in history
Cargo Dragon - 2012 - first commercial resupply to ISS
Model S - 2012 - BEV that started the EV transition
Supercharger network - 2012 - first US wide charging network and still most reliable
Falcon 9 Booster Reuse - 2017
Falcon Heavy - 2018 - Super heavy partially reusable rocket
Model 3 - 2018 - best selling EV next 3 years
Crew Dragon - 2020 - only US NASA approved crew craft to LEO
Starlink - 2020 - only successful orbital ISP
NACS - 2022 - charging plug standard opened and then adopted by majority of US BEV manufacturers
Model Y - 2023 - First BEV to be world’s best selling car
Starship - 2024 - first catch of an orbital class booster without landing gear
Musk is highly accomplished and has also over-hyped his plans many times.
He’s delivered things years late that were also years ahead of others.
The actual work of SpaceX and Tesla are done by his employees, but the company wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for him.
He’s expressed some laudable goals around green tech and space exploration and also done things designed to enrich himself immensely.
Tesla’s done some cool things and also had problems.
SpaceX is awesome and Musk is also a terrible human being.
Dichotomies are uncomfortable but they’re everywhere.