Musk is, all too often, a greedy cost-cutting fraud. His treatment of workers is terrible, his technology, as you say, is clearly second rate, the repair frequency of his cars is mediocre at best. He has kept Tesla afloat with his space ventures. The company is horribly overvalued compared to the major auto makers, yet he talks like the genius he claims to be. He's a marketing and PR genius, certainly. But in other ways he's now just a highly successful scam artist, an emperor in, at best, his skivvies.