Last fall, Tesla began making the only highway-capable E.V. now available: the Roadster, a $109,000 sports car that goes from zero to sixty in less than four seconds and has a range of two hundred and forty-four miles. Powered by a lithium-ion battery—the kind used in laptops and cell phones—the Roadster was designed to prove that E.V.s can not just compete but excel.
In the studio, Brown looked at Musk affectionately, seeming to wonder how to imbue him with the Steve Jobs touch.She warned him, “If you call Dan Neil a douche bag on national television, I’m going to come out and kick your ass.”’ car columnist, had that morning published a caustic piece calling the Model S “a glorified golf cart,” after he’d driven the company’s pre-prototype “show car”—a kind of dynamic sketch that lacked windshield wipers and operable windows.
When Musk was eight, his parents divorced, and he and his two younger siblings lived with their mother and a series of nannies in a succession of South African cities. “I think my mother somewhat overstates her role in raising me,” Musk says dryly. Maye Musk, a Canadian-born model and dietician, says, “Elon would accompany me to dinner parties if I didn’t have a date. I’d bring him to meet some interesting adults, and he’d hide a book under the table to read if they weren’t interesting enough.
tadfriend Is the implication this isn’t what he’s primarily focused on at this point? Why do they do this lol
tadfriend Wrapped clay car.
tadfriend But he'll always be remembered for mucking up Twitter.