I'm a bit surprised that Musk was able to find the time to make the announcement for Tesla, what with Twitter, SpaceX, The Boring Company, etc. Their stock price has been a roller coaster for for the last few years. Having said that, I have to grudgingly admit that they've achieved more in the past few years than I ever thought they would or could. I'm not mad about a lot of things, both related to the car, the founder (he's away with the fairies and has his head stuck a long way up his own ass) and the company, but they're not bound by a hundred years of "this is how we've always done things", the mindset of having existed for 100 years, so they're prepared to try things that other companies have a committee thinking about for years before they conclude that its too risky. Its probably too early to say it that's brilliance or naivety, but it could reasonably be either.
New 5 series - it'll flourish when they kill the ICE version, concentrate on the i5, find some way to mitigate the risk of financial ruin for second and subsequent owners of huge replacement parts bill and drop the price by €40k.
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