Musk was at his best during the unveiling — in full-on salesman mode, both for the vehicle and for Tesla's vision.
A few years back, after Tesla posted an unexpected quarterly earnings beat and CEO Elon Musk took to the opportunity to undersell what was then the yet-to-be-produced Model 3 sedan, I wrote thatI'm not going to judge my own verdict, but Tesla did finish 2018 by delivering almost 250,000 cars, and most of them were Model 3's. That's what happens when Musk says he isn't going to try that hard.
Musk has endured, to put it mildly, a lot of ups and downs since I called him a great salesman. For any other CEO, a 2017 spent struggling to manufacture the Model 3 at scale and a 2018 that featured a failed go-private effort, an SEC investigation, and sort of ongoing social-media meltdown would have been justification for retiring to run your other company that just launches rockets.
That progress is stunning, all the more so because Tesla's current trio of cars are some of the best vehicles ever built in an industry that's been around for over a century . It's safe to assume that the Model Y will continue this pattern of excellence.
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