ELON MUSK: The Beginning of the End 

It’s been said that wealth & power amplifies who you really are…if you’re a good person, you’ll be a generous rich & powerful person, and if you’re an a-hole, you’ll become an even bigger a-hole.

I guess you didn't do your homework regarding Cybertruck. 48 volt low voltage distribution (smaller wires, less weight), distributed controllers in doors, tailgate, seats, etc. (minimizes wire run lengths, less weight, reduces wiring installation time), bidirectional ethernet bus connecting distributed controllers and audio speakers), and steer by wire (front/rear). Do any of the other trucks you mention incorporate those technologies?

When people begin to feel invincible or bullet proof, life often finds a way to bring people back to Earth.

Being a Good Man is what matters ..

He's just getting started.

How did you miss the 48volt system and the IP v CAN communication?

If the cybertruck is not a statement for Tesla and the whole auto industry what is? The ID4 and its software?

The end of Elon is a bit exaggerated

Poor alex as he move to Volkswagen or back to Russia yet. The frustration of his limitations as built up to boiling point

Also, bi-directional charging makes Tesla Powerwalls obsolete. There is no justification to buy a couple Powerwalls to power your home for $12,000 each.. Instead, use the $25,000 to buy an EV with bidirectional charging and power your home with the car during blackouts.

*ON A PLANET OF 8 BILLION PEOPLE* someone is going to take massive outlandish gambles time after time and they pay off - until they dont. Elon Musk is the Cortez of the modern world - the guy should have unalived like 30 times and instead, he conquered the Azteks and died in his bed. But he also went mad.

@8:50 a new statement for the rest of the industry? At least two completely new revolutionary technologies (#2 and #7) plus many other improvements to the bread. These are all just off the top of my head. 1 - Fastest accelerating truck ever (ok, I think that is a party trick, not important). 2 - 48 volt low voltage system, reducing high wattage low voltage conductor weight by 84%. By itself, this is revolutionary. Tesla even sent a how-to primer to other companies. 3 - 800+ high voltage battery system, provides good performance even at lower (30%) charge. Not unique, at the current price point, but that is temporary. I expect prices to fall up to 20% by mid 2025 and more later. It will be unique to trucks priced less than 50K USD 4 - Able to adjust between 5" to 17" nominal clearance 5 - unpainted, super tough exterior. (we'll have to see how it holds up over time and in various environments) 6 - smaller than an F-150, but more cargo space and longer bed than most common F150 variant. 7 - Steer by wire. Other maybes, could be a bell weather for change or a mistake: 1 - cameras can make center rear view and side mirrors obsolete (technically, yes, but I like mirrors) 2 - Auxiliary battery pack proposed to satisfy folks whose primary use of the truck is towing. Either way, battery capacity, availability and cost improvements will eventually make this as unnecessary as it is awkward. 3 - introduction of the super-minimalistic iPad on wheels concept to the truck cabin. (actually, what is a Rivian R1T interior like? I know they have a similar screen, not sure about the other controls, though I suspect Tesla is ahead in the race to remove physical controls), again, not sure how I feel about this. 4 - highly water resistant body and battery pack, makes short trek over deep water less problematic. Great if you've got yourself in a bind, but bad if it mostly encourages Jack Asses to be stupid.

People want it both ways, they hate how money corrupts everything, but then when Elon won’t give in to demands even when it costs money, people are still pissed. I guess it’s not surprising that these days that people can’t comprehend paying a price for refusing to turn against your principles.

Your favourite VW company is in the big trouble.

I think you are too rough with the Cybertruck, yes it's not matching the hype but that's "okay". The Cybertruck is still pushing the envelope a lot. For anyone in IT the CAN bus network used in 99.9999% of the care are soo outdated and soo slow, it make no sense, it dates from 1983 and hasn't evolved much. Imagine a computer network using communication protocol of 1983 because it's "good enough". The Etherloop used in the Cybertruck is the first big change since 40 years ago (that I know of) and it is a big deal. The bulletproof alloy might sounds like a gimmick now, but it might also be the first step, I have no idea, but it's innovative for sure. 800V might be different than what Porsche is doing, etc. I don't know everything about the CyberTruck but saying it's not innovative doesn't seems correct. In any case it's too early to say one way or the other, time will tell us.

What do you think of the new 48v architecture in the cyber truck?

The vast majority of CT users will not drive 600 miles on a daily basis. In the best scenario one should not haul around heavy batteries that will get them more mileage than they will use on a daily basis. 600 miles is more that the average person can drive without a rest break. For most people it would be wasteful to store more than about 300 miles worth of energy per charge. If you really are a masochist, you can always get a Range Extender.

Too many huge projects all running at the same time must take it's toll on a person's mind and I believe Mr Musk has reached or over-reached his limits as the cracks are appearing. Now is the time to start easing off before stress kills him or he becomes mentally unbalanced, he is only human after all like the rest of us.

The underlying personality of somebody will come to the surface when they are so wealthy and so powerful as a result that they can insulate themselves to some degree from the consequences of what they say and do.

Well if Tesla isn’t pushing the rest of the industry, the competitors can relax and little and charge more. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of them got together and offered him a stupid amount of money to stop with the innovations. Who knows maybe he wants to focus on other stuff.

Where is the RAODSTER? 🙂 It was released by MG in the form of the Cyberster. What concerns me about Tesla is the inability to compete with the speed of the Chinese carmakers.

Did Alex take a two week nap?

Everyone should read Marcus Aurelius and his lifelong struggle with his urges in tyrany

The F-150 Lightning is more of an improvement over an ICE Truck then the Cybertruck is. The biggest Disadvantage of an ICE Truck is the Trunk. Some have Boxes etc. But the F-150 Lightning has a big Frunk which is a big as most normal Trunks with 400 Liters or 14.1 cubic Feet. Thats a normal Sedan Trunk size. The Cybertruck will have a Frunk of the Size of a Super Mini with 250-280 Liters or 9 Cubic Feet. The Ford Mach-E made the Frunk an Ice Cooler and easy to wash out, but had to have the divider, because of the size, Tesla simply made a smaller Frunkt to avoid the regulation.. . With a F-150 Lightning you get a Truck + a Sedan in one Car. With the Cybertruck a Truck + a Supermini in one Car and Stainless Steel. That the Cybertruck will be the better BEV, no question, but the Better Vehicle is the F-150 Lightning. And that is something Tesla has to compete with, poeple want to buy good cars not feel good Green Sentiment, especially as those are the Progressive he now has bad mouthed on X/Twitter. The F-150 lightning sells dropps after each Tesla Announcement, but it is out there and Cybertruck has to compete against it, the cheapest Cybertruck Version will hit the road in 2025, till then the F-150 is 20k cheaper and the better Truck.

Respect für speaking the truth! But even here in the comments are so many believers in the Church of Elon ;-)

Thanks!

I don't think it's the end of Elon but the end of me subscribing to this channel

Half will hate him and half will love him for his behavior. And 50% of the population is more than enough to sell tens of millions of Teslas.

One question, how many manufacturers initial concept model was any where as close to the production model as the Cyber truck was?

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First off, EM apologized for his statement on X. Second-the “woke” movement and the Democratic Party have done everything they can to silence him because he doesn’t go along with them. As for the Cybertruck release, it wasn’t that awful. While it is less than beautiful, this vehicle has technology that has OEMs scared shitless. So, as far as I’m concerned, Elon Musk has become an icon who is willing to stand up to the crap that has foisted itself on this once great country.😢

Where's the Roadster?

Where did you mover to?

Why is that down? X is the next surprise. He knows electric cars need a power source we don't have yet.

Thinks he can rival NASA with a giant steel can, and predicted that no one would develop hydrogen solutions for internal combustion, because "hydrogen is dumb." He doesn't seem to understand that space research is not a trillion-dollar guessing game. The point of scientific modeling is to predict reactivity at the highest precision of current architecture, and not wait for entertaining explosions.

I think at some point he figures out that "free speech" is really a misnomer. Say what you like but just remember that it can exact a price in a myriad of ways. I think that he will end up selling Twitter at a tremendous loss simply because it's distracting him from projects that he cares much more about.

Stench exhibits unique symptoms of a specific strain of affluenza.

Alex, I hope you'll share what country you moved to and did you take your electric car with you?

I think Musk and his businesses will do just fine.

Alex I love your channel and have been watching your videos. Although I disagree with the vast majority of what you just said in this one, it won’t stop me from watching your videos and being a fan. Keep it going man

These are the times that try men's souls, in three years who will have more success, E for Electric or Tesla?

The beginning of the end for Alex - anyone that counts Elon out is just underestimating the guy. Yes, he has enemies, (oligarchs who blackmail him by pulling advertising, a president who is trying to undermine his Starlink business, etc) but he always uses their evil against them by exposing them.

I love Elon. He is humanly authentic and makes human errors. He is a breath of fresh air in a very corrupt world ❤❤❤

The reason legacy car companies can’t meet or best Tesla is just exactly like Horse/ buggy makers couldn’t make automobiles. SS

His sucking up to Alex Jones was the straw that breaks the camel’s back. It’s on thing to let they guy on but doing a space with him is a implicit endorsement. CyberTruck is a failure because they didn’t deliver the promised 4680 batteries . That will be ultimately great for Lightning, R1S, R1T, and Gravity when they are on the NACS charging.

Elon is a side show... EV trucks do not make sense because the efficiency losses for electric motors on increased loads are a fundamental principle that can only be addressed with battery capacity. That just doesn't exist today or for a foreseeable future.

Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're smart!

He is not on his way out, his electric cars are still the number in safety, range and price. The comments will not sway the ordinary buyer. Memory of the comments will fade away in a few days. Take care.

Twitter + X = Xitter.

Let Elon be Elon, nobody is perfect. At least he is honest and he has values.

I don't think having a vehicle with 500 or 600 miles of range makes a lot of sense. For every kg of battery you add to extend the range, you have to add a little more to carry the weight of the extra battery. Then more to carry that extra weight. It's not hugely exponential, but it's not linear. And for 99% of people and 99% of the time, that amount of range isn't needed. So you're taking the hit on efficiency nearly all of the time to drag all that extra weight around. And the extra weight means going through tires even faster and more wear and tear on the suspension and steering, etc. And you paid an extra $15 grand for capacity you don't need. You might argue they could just offer an additional trim level with the higher range. Not really worth the extra tooling cost and hit to production speed of the assembly line for the *maybe* 50 people willing to pay extra for the extra range. In a typical week I drive 250 miles. For many people it's considerably less. 300ish miles of range means most could get by with charging just 1 or 2 times a week if they don't feel like doing it nightly. For road tripping, unless there's some unusual urgency, I usually want a break every 3 or 4 hours anyway. If that doesn't work for you, rent an ICE vehicle for all those trips with the $15 grand you saved by not getting the extended range. If you're the 1% that needs to tow something like a high drag coefficient trailer a fair distance on a regular basis - don't buy an electric pickup truck. None of them are going to meet your needs. Buy a diesel. Maybe things will change in 5 or 10 years, but for now that's your best alternative.

It will be a rough year for tesla for sure.

The ball is already in motion. As the US markers discounted the Japanese early on, the Chinese EV makers are making great strides and will continue to innovate even when uncle Elon is no longer relevant. I’ve 2 Teslas, but have absolutely no hesitations supporting a foreign EV co that’s unproblematic. #hegotcomfortable

Alex, I DO watch most of your videos, even if I don't always agree with you. You know why? Because AS YOU ALWAYS SAY, you don't let the car brands bribe you and shape your opinion about their EVs, even if you lose tons of money (that I'm sure you do), so criticizing Elon Musk just because because he said FU to Disney when they tried to bribe him doesn't seem right. We should praise everyone that's seeking the truth no matter what.

Ask the women in the industry on how they view him and his relationships with employees 😢

Human beings are full of flaws. We all hide our skeletons in the closet...sometime it just stick out!

Really!!!??

Great comments. Don't need to watch the vidio.

I wouldn't count Elon out. I respect anyone who calls out Robert Iger, the liar-in-chief and worst CEO Disney ever had, who is single handedly destroying a once great company and is tone deaf to his customers. Many people have publicly attacked Elon, and I think he's earned the right to verbally fight back against Iger and his ilk. His critics havent even come close to his success. He produced viable EV's when everyone else said it couldn't be done, and so far Tesla is the largest EV producer on the planet. And for over 50 years NASA said you could not have rockets that can land veritcally on a pad, and he proved them wrong. Given his track record I see no problem if he misses the mark sometimes. Innovators often have failures because they are not afraid of taking risks. And he restored real freedom of speech to Twitter. I'm not in the market for an EV, but if I was, I wouldn't consider any other brand than Tesla.

I'll agree with most of what you've pointed out, but, IMHO, the Cybertruck does have enough real technology to justify the extra price and lower range. (48 volt architecture, and steer by wire were not part of the original unveil) Still appreciate your unbiased position/honesty.

When you are a multi billionaire people let you do whatever you want, that's the American way. I do like what he has done with Spacex and Starlink and even Tesla but I wouldn't buy a Tesla. I think we are living in the hybrid era and the distances I drive and places I go to are not ideal for electric cars.

He seems to have lost his senses. I suspect no one challenges him.

It’s really cognitively dissonant for a businessman to consider customer choices blackmail. Every successful business exists at the pleasure of its customers. That was such a reptile brain overriding reason moment that it makes me unsure of any limit to his potential for stupidity despite firmly believing he is a genius.

I have to disagree that others aren't beating Tesla in engineering etc. You mention Lucid as just matching them but when you look at the technology and engineering that has gone into Lucid they are ahead of Tesla. The motor alone fits in a carry on suitcase and can deliver 600+ hp. Yes, traditional auto are leagues behind but Lucid is definitely giving Tesla a run for it's money on the efficiency \ engineering front. I honestly don't think Elon is going anywhere. As quick as advertisers "suspend " advertising they go running back just as quick. They do it to avoid being targeted by this cancel culture we've gotten into and then when the dust settles they sneak back in like nothing ever happened. I think it was last year when we heard "Twitter is days away from bankruptcy" yet 12 months on they're still here. Yes, Elon does many stupid things but just like Donald Trump he has a huge fanbase of loyalists and can say or do what he likes.

“Elon didn’t meet my expectations so he’s done.”Wow

When Elon proclaimed to Sandy Munro that he was the world's leading expert on manufacturing. Elon just jumped the shark...

We love Elon❤. Disney should go out of business. The world needs Tesla not Disney.

You are 100 percent correct but I hope you’re wrong.

You better stay criticizing EV's and leave X alone. He stood for his word and it will cost him a lot on the short term, but what do you know about what he is thinking of. He got blackmailed, and as a billionaire, what will you do if you were in his place?

Truth bombs as usual my friend, thanks for being one of the only people who are willing to go there. Keep up the good work!

not the end sorry

Yes!!! His behavior is damaging the Twitter..

Long overdue.

It's defined as Aspergers Syndrome. You know about mental challenges don't you Alex? And YES, my heart sank for our gifted leadershipness.

No way Elon Musk is done He will decide when he's done I support Elon Musk 😘

If you know anything about Elon Musk's history, you'd know this not the end or even beginning of the end. He has lived through more challenging and crucial times when first starting SpaceX and Tesla, than the issues he's facing now.

It's almost like EV advocates don't understand the automobile market as well as the people who have been in it for over 100 years...there was only one Model T, only one Beatle, etc, because there was only enough room in the market for one of them at a time. EVs aren't as popular with the public as you'd like them to be, that's just a reality you need to engage with. Tesla is the most popular among them and basically satisfies all of the demand for that product. Light trucks now account for approximately 60% of all vehicles on the road, did you even know that? Maybe if the Cybertruck had as wide of an aesthetic appeal as Tesla's more normal looking vehicles.. oh well, there's always the already best selling truck in electric form if you want that, and it is backed by a dealer service network. Turns out that sh!t matters to people who already buy the most popular truck. Maybe you should study the market a little more closely, just like Elon Musk should have. Tesla is hitting market saturation, and even banning ICEs won't help when Tesla isn't producing the TYPE of vehicle that consumers want. Cybertruck is a sh!tty design exercise and ego flex, it won't get Joe Sixpack to work with all the tools and materials that he needs to install your solar roof.

I agree and am sadly worried about a backlash against Elon. Tesla needs strong leadership and Elon seems tired up in X (Twitter) and is making lots of people unhappy. Corporations protect their brand and will cut advertising that they feel may impact the brand image. Elon should be well aware of this.

When a car takes longer to fuel, weighs a lot more, cost 20-25% more... we have yet to reach a better car. It's not even cheaper to fuel when you aren't home. BEVs have their advantages for sure, but there's a lot of hurdles to overcome before mass adoption occurs. The film industry went to video from film because it became better in every regard. Cheaper, higher resolution, easier/faster in post production. It just is better in every regard. With respect to Elon, he lost the plot a long time ago. But then again, there are a lot of people who love Elon and Trump's middle finger to "the system" regardless of the logic of their position. Frighteningly, these people just don't care. Nihilist is the word.

Bro stays on Elon's neck. In the best and worst ways. Whether if we agree or not. It's good to have an open mind, and take in the information.

You are entitled to your opinion...it is wrong, in my opinion, but you're in a free country (for now) so feel free to say whatever you feel. Elon does. I do. Good people don't cow down to the low life losers who desire to bring our country down to their level. Good people stand their ground and support their core beliefs.

Thank you for the candid video. In my assessment, the Tesla brand has been tarnished to a degree that their survival will necessitate his removal from operations and transition to an advisory capacity. Even then, it will take years to recover.

Cybertruck looks terrible.

Take it easy brother

Wait how is the cyber truck not the leader in the ev truck market?

Surprisingly, some individuals appreciate unfiltered communication, finding it refreshing that not everything they hear is sugarcoated. Free speech is valuable, allowing people to express their opinions. One's viewpoint at a particular moment doesn't permanently define them - that notion is absurd.

Keep doubting 😊

Forget it

As a Elon fan, I can say he has definitely been acting like a major ahole for awhile. Did Twitter break him? Is it really all fake and part of some strange strategy to win over previously unavailable market segments? Was he always an ahole but was too busy doing other things for it to more clearly materialize? He definitely has not been acting like a "good man". I think maybe he is vengeful, and when he gets attacked, it affects him in negative ways. He was attacked, often unfairly, over a lot of Twitter stuff early on, but then the negativity seemed to turn him into the monster people were trying to portray him as -- a man who appears to take glee at hurting others. A lot of people seem to be that way, and it reflects poorly on us as a society. The most positive theory I can muster, and this is pretty out there conspiracy theory level reasoning, is that he has been aiding Ukraine in various ways but needs to uphold a dumb-a turdboy persona for diplomatic and national security reasons.

You said the new cybertruck’s specs “are even worse than when first unveiled” sounds like you didn’t think they could be any worse to begin with. 😂

8:00 no its will be comletely redesigned in manufacturing. I can aggree that epsecially in the US, ppl buy pickups for grocery shopping and errands, not at all for towing and work. I someone needs the extra range they can buy it. As a business decision, i can support it, but the extender shoudl be somewhere under the bed.

Boycott Disney

Elon appears to be sleep deprived. Not getting enough sleep can lead to all kinds of bad stuff. Mainly mental issues, paranoia, anger, etc. He even has trouble speaking sometimes. I love what he has done for the EV revolution, and I do hope he pulls himself back together.

OG Musk fan here too. Longtime TSLA shareholder. Musk has gone off the rails. I can’t justify buying a Tesla until he resigns as CEO.

You never understud Tesla or Elon Musk, what a pitty

It’s not that he has no clothes, it’s that he thinks he’s a living god and is abusive towards anybody less than him, which as a god, is everyone. You, me, your family… everyone. And that is incredibly offensive and what societies do to somebody like that is cut them off. We inherently sense that person is dangerous and put and end to the whole fiasco. There will be hangers-on and people in denial, but it’s over.

Other EV makers will move to 48-Volt low voltage architectures, steer by wire, higher bandwidth lower latency inter-module communication systems, giga-castings for high volume production models, and more integrated vehicular designs. Much of this will be inspired by Cybertruck.

Well said! My point exactly in my own video last week. Tesla missed its last chance in a while to raise the bar on ev adoption in the most important segment of all: the pickup truck market. It was the time to force the Big Three to step up their game. Instead, we got a triangle that literally missed every. single. promise. made in 2019. Sad

you seriously believe that electrical cars are better for earth 😂

Elon Musk will be remembered for all of time; E for Electric, not so much.