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  • Tesla.

    Even before Musk went full mask-off, they only had a single practical vehicle- the Model Y.

    Model S and X are priced like super cars.

    Model 3 is impractical, being a Sedan/Saloon with a fixed rear wall behind the rear seats (it’s not a hatchback)

    Model Y is the only one that’s both practical and mildly affordable (it’s still overpriced) - but you’d be better served by a BYD Atto3 for a third of (~AU$35k) the price and the same build quality.

    (Atto1 is about a quarter of the price AU$24k vs. AU$96k, but it’s not the same build quality, Atto1 is built-to-a-price and that price is low…) (none of the listed prices are drive-away)








  • Before SpaceX, back when Musk had his X.com/PayPal money, he tried to buy an ICBM from Russia with the purpose of modifying it to launch a mission to Mars*.

    The last meeting they had about it, Russia basically laughed him out of the room after they’d already tried to fleece him. So he founded SpaceX to get there instead.

    * Mars mission was really just to move some plants and bacteria to Mars - within the space community, there are some that want to limit/prevent exploration of extraterrestrial bodies for sake of contamination, that our bacterial load might change the course of natural evolution on a planet. Musk wanted to ‘pollute’ Mars in order to make that argument no long viable.

    Early SpaceX is pretty wild.