Elon Musk's Tesla 'Master Plan 3' Presentation Was a Chaotic, Boring, Confusing Mess

[Mr. Sparkle]

Elon Musk presented Tesla’s much-hyped “Master Plan 3" on Wednesday, in the company’s first “investor day” livestream. But, instead of revealing a new Tesla model, specifying the date of the repeatedly delayed cybertruck launch, introducing a more affordable electric car (as previously promised), or announcing some significant advancement in the company’s past robotaxi plans, Musk and co took a different approach. They offered almost no new information about Tesla products.

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Then the lengthy (more than 3-hour) presentation got back to the dull parade of Tesla execs who have rarely made past public appearances. For context: One of the ‘innovations’ announced was shifting to open access chargers which is actually just Tesla aligning itself with recent Biden Administration requirements for the company to receive federal subsidy money through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Another was a summary of why self-driving is critical for sustainability, because autonomous cars could serve more than one owner (At this point I involuntarily shouted “Just build an electric bus!” to the nearly empty office).

Tesla execs did eventually announce that they’ll be offering an unlimited overnight home charging option for drivers in Texas for $30 a month. The final segment of the prepared presentation focused on numbers, earnings, operating margins, and other things the company had already shared with investors in its January shareholder report. Worth noting: even though Musk and his company cronies offered nearly nothing new, even the little they did say might be utter bullshit. The whole presentation started with an extremely comprehensive disclaimer—emphasizing that you should not, in fact, assume the things that Musk says are true.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-tesla-mater-plan-3-ai-self-driving-evs-1850175848

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Something Confusing

Owners in Texas would have to pay $30 to use their own electricity to charge their cars?
So, they pay $30 & for the kilowatt-hours?
If so, what does the $30 actually buy?

[hatrack]

2. Yeah - Tesla pays the utility or the co-op and eats the difference? Is that how it works?

Then again, it's getting hard to see through the cloud of vaporware.

[nwliberalkiwi]

3. Stock Dump

We dumped our Tesla stock. Can not support a racist bastard!!!

[genxlib]

4. That disclaimer at the end

Should really be for Twitter.

I think the slides got mixed up.

[samnsara]

5. kinda like his personal life