This is interesting-Go Elon---------------

Do your homework, Musk does have several companies engaged in actual inventing, business and manufacturing!
I don't think any of us have said private or profitable, I know I haven't. (Yet)
None of us senior citizens will be around to see electric vehicles become the default vehicle on the planet, but our grandkids will.
For me it has nothing to do with "Green, Clean energy, it's about the technology moving mankind forward.
All the roadblocks will be solved and the technology will be developed. Petroleum based fuels will go the way of "Clean Coal"
Although the petroleum lobby and their minions will be the first and strongest to berate and belittle the technology because it pinches their wallets.
As the OP of this thread, my work is done here, I have made my position clear---------The Rat has left the building and "unwatched this post string"
Good luck and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you-this has been a great dialogue discussion and I have enjoyed it:-)