Musk didn’t invent the electric car, but he did make it cool, which was ultimately what was required to get it into mainstream adoption.
Electric cars and hybrids were always weird looking and slow, which gave them a stigma that most people didn’t like.
Elon shows up with an electric car made from a Lotus, then makes a family sedan that looks pretty normal and puts up super car numbers. That makes the electric go from a hippie option to tech that enables a better, faster, more fun cars for everyone. The whole fuel saving thing is just a bonus.
A person doesn’t have to be the original inventor of all the underlying tech. Sometimes all it takes is packaging things in the right way for people to start caring about it. This is what Steve Jobs was good at too.
Musk didn’t invent the electric car, but he did make it cool, which was ultimately what was required to get it into mainstream adoption.
Electric cars and hybrids were always weird looking and slow, which gave them a stigma that most people didn’t like.
Elon shows up with an electric car made from a Lotus, then makes a family sedan that looks pretty normal and puts up super car numbers. That makes the electric go from a hippie option to tech that enables a better, faster, more fun cars for everyone. The whole fuel saving thing is just a bonus.
A person doesn’t have to be the original inventor of all the underlying tech. Sometimes all it takes is packaging things in the right way for people to start caring about it. This is what Steve Jobs was good at too.