Part 4 -
Actually, I did see an interview with him in a time when Tesla was struggling. He impressed me as a humble person. Since then, I have not seen that side of him. It's not unique to Musk or that interview. Perhaps you should take a look at this (your local library may have a copy of it)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2104994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Steve%20Jobs%20the%20lost
Its interesting, IMO, to see this side of Jobs - all the while literally telling people that he copied technology developed by Xerox PARC.
I would not call what he's charging for Starlink cheaper, Teslas are by no means affordable to everyone - not to mention the problems they have.
IMO, it just shows Musk trying to beat everyone to the market in a hasty fashion - and you do know that saying about haste, I assume.
With the years of crap that the US auto industry has produced, its no surprise to me that someone so embedded in the US auto Industry would think Musk is doing a great job.
That's not really surprising as I bet he did that because he realized that not everyone was going to employ his charging mechanism. If you can't take over the market by getting people to buy your product, give it away and people will flock to you and your product.
I hope you enjoyed your gaming session.
But who is going to use it on Mount Everst? The YETI? I'm willing to bet that not many in that part of the world can afford it. Perhaps the only people in that region that can afford it are those who can afford the cost of the journey to the mountain.
And then there is the interference it generates for ground based astronomical observatories - many of which have billions invested in them - and Musk/Starlink/SpaceX comes along and makes astronomy exponentially more difficult for them. Here's an example that has not yet gone to "first light".
https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/
As I see it, Starlink is an attempt by Musk/SpaceX to diversify, in the capitalistic sense, just in case his other ventures fail. He'll have millions of people dependent on his services so that he still can be "the richest man in the world."
Does he offer Starlink for free in regions where the general population cannot afford it? I really want to know, but my bet is that he does not. If he does, then he's likely relying on the fees of the service to private yachts and others to subsidize the costs. No average boater can possibly afford the cost of his "marine internet."
It reminds me of Bill Gates "contest" to design a waste treatment system for India. What some brilliant people came up with was a western-style sewage treatment plant that cost millions of dollars, and required even more millions of dollars of infrastructure. For India? Come on! That was a WTF moment for me. TS did an article on this contest if you care to search for it. For me, the answer was obvious - composting toilets. Yet it took Gates years to come to that conclusion. Honestly, he never came to that conclusion until someone came along and proposed that idea to him. WTF? Gates the genius? Laughable.
Many of these billionaires that people think are doing so much for society and everyone thinks that "Oh, they're so smart because they have a lot of money" are not as smart as people think. And its another symptom of the failings of modern society, IMO.
IMO, state of the art exists only in the research laboratory for now - and Musk's state of the art will soon be so far surpassed, it will be a distant memory. He hasn't really gotten us that much further ahead. Heck, even the Tesla battery pack is a collection of AA-sized cells. Its as if any model of Tesla is a scaled up, battery powered, Mattel Hot Wheels car.
I'm not going to say much, but Lucid is, to the best of my knowledge, advancing the technology.
But,
IF Toyota comes through with their Solid Battery they announced, that one singular advancement will be one of the needed game changers for the EV market. Put those the "Megapack" and the world will have something. Toyota kept quiet about it and even said in the last few years that they were putting EV development on the back-burner, so to speak. BTW- I've seen "Who killed the electric car".