Alan Ohnsman is a Forbes senior editor who covers cleantech and advanced transportation. He joined Forbes in 2016 and works in Los Angeles. He co-authors the Current Climate newsletter, writes about promising clean energy developments and has covered Tesla since 2006, when he was with Bloomberg News. He has a graduate degree in journalism and a B.
The “Secret Master Plan ’ underscored Musk’s mission for Tesla : lead a shift from a “mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy” with ever more affordable electric vehicles . Elon Musk ’s 18-year-old manifesto in which the tech entrepreneur laid out his vision for the electric car maker shortly after its first public event has vanished from the company’s blog page, along with all posts by Musk and Tesla executives before 2019.
It’s a far cry from his positions from Tesla’s early days: “The overarching purpose of Tesla Motors is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution,” Musk wrote in the 2006 blog. In it, he also promised that each successive Tesla model would be cheaper than one that preceded it, with a goal of making EVs widely affordable.
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gets a test ride in Tesla Roadster at the company's first public event in July 2006.that an October 2016 company post claiming “All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware” had disappeared. The company is facing aaccusing Musk and the carmaker of misleading buyers about the autonomous driving capabilities of its vehicles.
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