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Politics aside, if Musk wasn't in charge of Tesla, Tesla would make better cars.
Absolutely. Because Tesla would be focused on staying ahead of the competition instead of making a useless truck, among other things.
(And by "useless truck" I could mean that mobile dumpster or his big rig jokes.)
I’m not sure why you put the big rig in the same loony bin as cybertruck. We need to get diesel out of that industry as well, and Tesla Semi seems to be the most advanced contender and has had great reviews from pilot customers
There are several videos and essays explaining why the Tesla Semi is a non-starter. The basic concept, boiled down into a detail-erasing nutshell, is that it's too heavy and will always be too heavy. It's a dead end.
Yes, it’s a bit heavier than a Diesel, reducing the maximum payload. However not all trips are at the maximum weight.
Yes I’ve read “armchair generals” proclaim it’s too heavy to be useful, but I’ve also read reviews from it in actual use where it’s worked really well. What I have NOT read is anything about what percentage of trips that reduced payload weight would affect.
Apparently they have happy pilot customers, enough to plan on mass production and to start building chargers
And even if they did decide to make a useless truck, it probably wouldn't have five recalls in the first year.