@ragingloli He’s consistently done the impossible. That Top Gear smear job was dismissed because the show was about entertainment and didn’t have to be held to any standards of accuracy in their depictions thus the dismissals. That doesn’t mean the show wasn’t full of shit.
It’s not like there isn’t huge incentives to try to smear electric cars either. John Broder got caught pulling all kinds of BS in his review trying to make the Model S look bad. Tesla had logs from his trip which directly contradicted his article:
“The logs show that Broder intentionally failed to charge his car properly, and even drove around a parking lot in an attempt to drain the car’s battery. Despite claiming to set cruise control at 54 mph and turning off the heat to conserve battery life, the logs show that Broder did neither — instead, he turned the heat up to 74F (23C) and drove at speeds between 65 and 81 mph for most of the trip… It gets better. According to Tesla’s logs, Broder’s Model S never actually ran out of battery, including when he called out a tow truck. It would seem that Broder completely fabricated that portion of the story, simply to fuel the flames of electric range anxiety. This isn’t to say that Broder didn’t try to run the car flat: He drove around a tiny parking lot in Milford, Connecticut for 0.6 miles while the car told him he had zero miles remaining. When the car refused to die, he eventually headed over to the Milford Supercharging facility.”
Big oil and big auto have no interest in electric cars, the latter being dragged forward kicking and screaming producing compliance cars.
And yeah there are some production challenges as Tesla tries to go from producing ~31.5k of just the Model S in 2014 to ~101k Model S & Model X cars, plus ~2.5k Model 3’s in 2017. But we’re talking about production slipping about 3–6 months, which is pretty minuscule in the big picture. Musk tends to set big, ambitious goals publicly and often falls behind his own timelines, but he’s still way ahead of where he would have been if he’d set more achievable goals and not created pressure on his team to deliver the impossible.