Featured Musk on sabotage

For the longest time, I graphed the number of fuel efficient cars sold each month and saw three bands:

• Prius hatchback - 2-3 times the next highest, efficient car sales. I had to use the secondary Y-axis to share it's trend line with all of the others on the other Y-axis
• market leaders - +2,500 units per month, usually about 5-8 models
• we're not dead, yet - <2,200 units per month the rest, low volume

Example, the monthly top sales leaders:

1. Prius hatchback uses the right-hand, Y-axis scale because it so dominated the efficient car market.
2. Middle group above 2,500 sales per month tended to rarely cross but clustered together.
3. Not dead yet below 2,200 sales per month were a more dynamic group that often saw trend lines cross and change. These were often 'halo' models that manufacturers seemed to tout as 'we like efficient cars too', more fig-leaf than seriously in the market.

Over the years I've seen a lot of electric trucks announced with just one or two handcrafted examples for press photos. Volume production never really shows up (aka., Via Motors.) But the German Postal Service finally contracted building their own electric postal trucks because the German car makers would not offer them. Just the Tesla trucks are different.

Tesla starting from bare walls and empty lots has:

• SpaceX
• Tesla Motors
• Tesla Grid Batteries

So I see Tesla taking a bite out market share and the others 'getting a clue.'

Bob Wilson