I got a conspiracy theory..
Elon Musk isn’t that smart and he damn sure isn’t a genius. I’ve seen too many videos of him tossing out buzz words that would convince people in awe of the thought that he is a genius, that it goes unnoticed that he’s cosplaying as one.
I believe that electric vehicles are the future and the US government knows we need to transition to them. I believe that no autmomaker wanted to be the one that would alienate middle America white people, which for some reason companies really avoid upsetting them too much.
So the US government helped prop up and manufacture Musk and Tesla, not of his own knowledge but knew the profile of him wouldn’t let him believe that he wasnt an ahead of the times genius driven to try to prove to the world that he was one.
Leading to him investing and pushing Teslas and being the anti hero that middle America whites can get behind. That I’m better than you liberal whites can get behind. Enough to really push EV vehicles into the mainstream.
And now that’s it’s common place for them to be a thing. In jump the other automakers that actually know how to make and market cars. That changes the landscape to EV vehicles. Tesla and Musk served their purpose.
And now in the coming future you are gonna see the destruction of the useful idiot they propped up that’s no longer of any use. But wealthy enough to cause a problem.