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I'd give Elon Musk more credit than generic CEO spin for this. If he thought hydrogen was viable, he'd be working on it.

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I give Musk a bit more credit than most CEOs, but he has also shown himself to be very capable of playing the spin game in the press recently (the funky math on the 'new finance product', declaring that the NYT backed off its Tesla piece when they in no way did).

If he thought hydrogen was viable, he'd be working on it.

He is one person, and he is not all knowing. He has limited time and potential. He also has a significant ego and financial interest in their current course.

He's a smart guy, but I'm not going to write something off because he isn't into it.

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