Mr. Musk has never run afoul of federal regulators, but he has had a long history of friction with the news media. Some reporters who cover the company closely say Mr. Musk’s hyperbole sometimes crosses the line into what they regard as distortions.
“I don’t believe him,” says Ray Wert, editor in chief of Jalopnik, a blog about the auto industry. “He’s made so many prognostications in the past that just have been so completely wrong. I don’t think he’s lying. I actually believe that he believes what he’s saying. But I just think it’s nowhere near what the reality is. It never has been.”
via nytimes.com
Color me a skeptic. Given the extreme costs and complexity to achieve scale, the fact that Tesla is pursuing the main of the market vs. an underserved niche, and the fact that the auto industry is a big ecosystem with a long history and lots of pattern recognition, it just feels like too much has to go right for them to succeed.