In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns.
Just casually asking for a roughly 80 Billion dollar pay raise. But at this point would Tesla be better off without him?
Did they always or is that more recent ones?
Hard to say. Cars put out before the Model 3 were typically not sold at large quantities. So the lower runs were sold to rich people or fanboys at first and it’s hard to get an honest long term review about them.
From what I’ve seen though, their earlier cars weren’t filled with tech like the newer ones which meant less points of failure so I’m betting the older ones were at least somewhat better.
I can’t really speak for the early models but all the ones in recent years, so mostly the Model 3 I think, were plagued with issues.
I’ve driven in a Model S from before the Model 3 came out (2015 or 2016, IIRC), and the build quality was worse than the Model 3.
Significantly worse than the Skoda Fabia I bought almost new for £12k at around the same time. That thing isn’t flashy but man it’s put together solidly. Nothing rattles, nothing wobbles, all stitching is consistent, no glued-on materials are peeling off, the panels line up consistently everywhere, the paint is thick. None of that was true for the Tesla.
Don’t get me wrong, part of me enjoyed driving in that Model S, the acceleration was insane, but the build quality was absolutely appalling.
I thought it was just car reviewers who are used to high end Mercs, Bentleys, and BMWs, needlessly trashing Tesla, and that the build quality would be fine. But it wasn’t, if anything they go way too easy on Tesla.