Coming from a Chrysler family, you probably didn’t have high standards on what a car should be, anyway. (sorry, I had to!)

2. Tesla has never made dollar one on their product. Any quarters they have shown to be in the black profit wise was on the back of selling EPA carbon credits to nonEV car manufacturers and taking deposits for preorders on cars not yet delivered. They’ve been in the red by 100s of millions of dollars year after year…

There are 3 problems with EVs replacing cars in the future:

Technological advancement in a certain area isn’t a given. There are a lot of smart people who have been working on better batteries/better storage/faster recharging for a long time, and they haven’t been able to crack the nut yet. It’s likely they will get to the point where we get that magical 400 miles of range +…

That's not almost there, that's halfway there. 50%. 

2 million trucks out of 17 million cars? You are saying you need to cover 10% to go mainstream and 90% isn’t enough?

I remember when 8-track tapes were the solution. But they were replaced by cassettes, which were replaced very briefly by DAT which was replaced quickly by CDs. Today’s batteries in today’s electric cars are cassette tapes.

Apple(16% market share): proprietary lightning cable

Jay Leno has done so much to bring denim out of the shadows and into the mainstream. For that, I am forever grateful.