04.17
Let’s get all of the cards on the table. Tesla’s CEO Elon Blofeld Musk (left) got himself interviewed by, how to put this, controversial tech reporter Sarah Lacy (right) and during the course of said interview Musk calls New York Times reporter Randy Stross a, “huge douchebag” and an “idiot” as Lacy proceeds to laugh her ass off. Why all the unkind words from Musk? Stross questioned whether or not taxpayers should support Tesla’s $109,000 two-seat, zero-trunk electric Roadster. Only problem is, the federal money Tesla wants ain’t for the Roadster. It’s for the upcoming Model S sedan, which depending on tax credits will run consumers about $50,000 in 2011 (though Musk calls the Model S a “$35,00 car” and Lacy says nothing). The New York Times later printed a “correction.” Though Musk claims it’s a “retraction” buried “on page 27 in micro-font.” Then the Sunday Times Business Editor Tim O’Brien said Lacy was, “Too busy giggling to do Journalism 101″ and call him or Stross for a clarification. You can read much more about the swirling, name calling, mudslinging embroilment here and also here. However, we’re posting the video below because you just got to check out the sparks flying between the debonair billionaire Musk and the Christina Hendrix-bodied Lacy. Hawt!
[Source: Autoblog Green]
Tesla is a “BAD THING”, feel free to repost this:
• Marty, the founder of Tesla, has said that Musk is a “liar”, “cheat”, “manipulator” and has “no idea what he is doing”
• Musk abandoned his wife and kids for a teeny bopper actress and cheated on his marriage vows
• Musk blew tens of millions of dollars on wasted engineering and office fluff that has never been, and never will be, used in the car and that has been proved to be wrong by the new engineering staff.
• Tesla has sent a pitch letter to almost every VC on Earth and not a single one of them will invest in Tesla because their investigations in due diligence showed the company to be so poorly managed and to have one of the worst debt and financial structures in industry.
• Musk had his PR liaison pay GQ magazine to write an article about him about what a stud muffin he was so he could get more dates.
• The company has increasing numbers of lawsuits against them and most of those are for ethics issues.
• The company needs to sell 1000 cars per day to even come within a hair of meeting their investor, financial and operational costs. They are barely within 5% of that figure.
• Now that so many people have quit or left GM , they have revealed that the EV1 (Who killed the electric car) was recalled and crushed because the battery pack was shown to cause cancer. When Musk was told the Tesla battery pack could also cause cancer, he told the engineers to “not dwell on non-issues”.
• Tesla conned the city of San Jose and other politicians to write letters for their DOE loan knowing full well they were never going to put a factory in San Jose because it was too expensive to ever do that.
• Tesla applied for the DOE loaned even though they do not have the viability or debt ratio to qualify. Tesla has worse financials than Chrysler.
• Fisker, Shelby, Bright and dozens of other companies now offer more EV, faster EV, more features in an EV for less money, so there is no reason to buy a Tesla now.
• No customer is going to install a 220V or 440 V extra plug on their house and pay for that and the extra energy in any volume.
• Musk spied on his staff unethically and created a work environment where nobody cares about the company or the car so the quality is in the hole.
• Darryl Sir, Marty the founder, and hosts of famous people have left and blogged or tattled at tech parties on the extreme ills of Musk.
• Musk spends almost 400K per month on PR services to exploit his name instead of his company brand.
• Tesla changed the prices after customers bought cars because they still are too screwed up to figure out how much their only product costs. If they can’t figure out the cost, then they can’t figure out the engineering so expect a wheel to fly off at 70MPH. Look at how many Tesla’s have already been wrecked. Many times more than Fiskers.
• Tesla has wasted so much money that they can never make money so that now Musk funds the company from his PayPal money but it is running out.
• Musk’s ex wife does not want to make direct trouble in order to not screw up the alimony but she writes on blogs as “Nancy” or “Ellie” to reveal the true inside stuff she knows about Musk and it isn’t good.
• If you buy a Tesla you must REQUIRE an audited copy of their financials, signed, if you want to protect your money.
Damn, that is quite a list of reasons to dislike Tesla. Not sure whether the guy has good intentions or not, but i hope that young automotive companies, like Tesla, can introduce new products and help influence change in the automotive industry. The big 3 haven’t been the same since the 60s. I for one am not a huge fan of large conglomerates attacking the little guy. That being said, i don’t know everything about Tesla, and for all i know, they may not be a good use of tax payers dollars.
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