[Aeolos]

> Elon Musk [...] created Tesla

Elon Musk did not found Tesla, and most definitely did not did it for environmental reasons.

"Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors." [1]

"If, I don’t know, 50 to 100 years from now, we’re mostly sustainable. I think that’ll probably be okay. So it’s not like the house is on fire immediately. [...] "The risk is not as high as a lot of people say it is with respect to global warming." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.

[2] https://turboscribe.ai/transcript/share/4422534834081521519/...

[Thorrez]

Thanks for the clarification about founding. But he joined as chair of the board when the company was less than 1 year old, and helped develop their first car.

>and most definitely did not did it for environmental reasons.

From that same link, he says one of the goals of Tesla is to make environmentalism cool:

> And so you get the solar power, mind that with batteries. So because obviously the sun doesn't shine at night and then you use that to charge the electric cars and you have a long-term sustainable solution.

> And, you know, that's what Tesla is trying to move things towards. And I think we've made a lot of progress in that regard. But when you look at our cars, like we don't believe that environmentalism, that caring about the environment should mean that you have to suffer.

> So we make sure that our cars are beautiful, that they drive well, that they're fast, they're, you know, sexy. I mean, they're cool.

Here he says the purpose for him working on electric cars is to transition people to sustainable transport: https://youtu.be/SNIaHc0Uggs?si=ELivf9xj2J3PS8Wi&t=304

[inemesitaffia]

There was no car design pre Musk.