41 Interesting Facts About Tesla Motors
For investors, Elon Musk is a polarizing figure.
He clearly sees the big picture and has started multiple companies that could be considered to be extremely successful by almost any set of criteria: Paypal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and Solar City are all valued at over $1 billion – an impressive feat, to be sure.
Musk also continually aims to bring us game-changing technologies that will improve society. The Hyperloop, Gigafactory 1, and a colony on Mars are just some of his recent ideas or contributions. Like them or hate them, they are bold and audacious plans. That’s just something we don’t see enough of these days.
By the same token, Elon Musk often gets ahead of himself. He sees things so well in advance that his projections and goals often don’t end up being grounded in reality. For example, the WSJ has reported here that Tesla failed to meet more than 20 of his projections, missing ten of them by nearly a year on average.
These types of misses don’t sit well with investors, some of who already think the stock could be overvalued. After all, despite the optimism around future prospects for Tesla Motors, the company has technically lost $2.5 billion since inception.
41 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT TESLA MOTORS
Regardless of where a person stands on Tesla (TSLA) and Elon, the story remains downright fascinating for many reasons.
The following infographic comes to us from Jennings Motor Group, and it covers 41 facts on the company as well as Elon Musk – the driving force behind the company.
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I have thought he is a carnival barker. Musk will do anything to get more money, IMO. He says he wants to colonize Mars. But it is 40 years in the future. I was hoping he would speed it up so he would go away himself! Just kidding. But in all seriousness, we don't need self driving cars, we can't trust them, and even a world full of electric cars will make massive millions of people expendable as human beings. And globalists have spoken of liquidating up to 90 percent of the population. Everything Musk does except his real current business of selling cars and shooting rockets, speaks to this ultimate liquidation. This is my opinion, but he has twice warned that manually driven cars should be banned. The guy is a problem for freedom, for US autonomy, and for patriotism. I don't trust him and no American really should.