Does he also have some emails I should be concerned about?

Re-read the above paragraph. The BMW CEO may very well be a contemptible POS in his own right, but . . . The part after the “but” is the important part.

Like It or not Tesla is synonymous with musk. I find musk to be an obnoxious, narcissistic attention whore, I don’t like people like that whether they be Elon musk, Ashley Horner or Donald trump. Given that I have a choice why in the world would I give him money?

No you can’t buy a 35k model 3. If you go to a store, you can in person order a 35.4k+1.2k black only software limited model 3. You can’t actually order it online. They are doing their best to not sell them as they are money losers that I guess will be completed removed by the end of the year.

Maybe. Maybe not. I think the one thing they did change was the idea that an ev meant slow and ugly. I still think the correct future would be PHEV. Where you have a small battery 50-75 miles and a gas tank for longer trips. All the benefits and non of the downsides. Or something else all together. People are shrugging off the reality of battery’s, fires, and end of vehicle life issues with rainbows and unicorns.

So it's more important to you what he has said, then what he has done?

I would give money to the best product. That's what I would do. Outside of him being a racist or something, it's the product that I'm looking at. And from the products I've seen from SpaceX and Tesla, I like.

Once we put it through the Elon translation we get a 50K truck with the most basic trim and shorter range only delivered after they sell thousands of the higher end truck over the course of several years. But if he delivers a 50K truck with a range of 300 miles I'm in.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

If we get past the the fact that at this point it’s vaporware, I am still not sure I would bet on a 50k truck existing. I would assume that it would be based on the model x platform, which is $82k and 255 epa miles of range. The model x is basically an over-inflated Prius, so I struggle to see how a less aerodynamic truck would even come close to that range. I also struggle to see how there is 30k in cost that can be removed from the x to make a truck anything but a huge money loser.

And that is also assuming that they somehow manage to make the weight similar to the x (5300lbs) and have a similar tow capacity of just under 5k lbs.