ALEXANDER PARKER: Musk, TeslaBros and being bold enough to eschew the perils of certainty
Musk’s divisiveness is founded in the US, where he has over the past few years become a hate figure on the Left
12 December 2022 - 05:03
Long-standing readers might recall that for years I wrote about the car industry, starting in the mid-2000s. This was just as the industry was running into technical challenges as a result of tightening environmental requirements, which manifested differently in the two big markets, the US and Europe. Simplistically, the Europeans were focused on greenhouse gasses, and the US on air quality.
It was into this morass that Elon Musk stepped, investing in a six-month-old electric vehicle (EV) start-up called Tesla. ..
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