I don't need to do due diligence. I don't like electrics and the bashing of gasoline-powered vehicles. Electrics have been around for over a century and still not ready for prime-time. While gasoline delivers more bang for the buck and is a proven technology. All I said, is that the Teslas appear to be better than what the other car-makers are putting into production. There is huge dissatisfaction with the Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf, etc., far beyond any for the Tesla. The Volt is a disaster, and sucks up lots of government handouts. If you check reports on the Tesla from a technical standpoint, you'll see that it has superior electronics integration and lower build costs than the Volt or other electrics. All of what Musk is doing is not entirely bad, he's being blamed for everything in a similar way that Trump is blamed for everything. I don't care about Musk and I don't like him, and yes he is kind of an a-hole. An a-hole genius, though.
Quite a bit of the blame he gets is well deserved.
His management is crap. He has driven off mid and upper level management, he lies constantly about production.
While there is some cool tech in the cars, expensive handmade parts made of expensive composite materials that don’t fit the car properly are not cool. Finish quality is lacking for a car in the price range. Waiting weeks and months for parts is common.
There are a lot of unhappy Tesla owners that you aren’t hearing about. They aren’t getting air time. Not PC.
Yes, the Volt is a disaster, to put it kindly. But Tesla is burning 5 billion a year of handouts and incentives paid for with money confiscated from us. Musk is a snake oil salesman who runs Ponzi schemes and can’t run a business for profit. Taking “deposits” and using that money to run day to day operations (along with free government money) is fraud. Every Tesla investor who is going to get burned deserves it.