Elon Musks Throws Hissy Over Bill Gates' Car Choice

So, it turns out that Elon Musk isn't the mature, self-assured adult we all thought he was. His most recent tour de force of emotional stability came this week, again via Twitter, after Bill Gates made his most recent choice of personal automotive conveyance public. So, it turns out that Elon Musk isn't the mature, self-assured adult we all thought he was. His most recent tour de force of emotional stability came this week, again via Twitter, after Bill Gates made his most recent choice of personal automotive conveyance public. [Wealth Daily logo] Elon Musks Throws Hissy Over Bill Gates' Car Choice [Alex Koyfman Photo] By [Alex Koyfman]( Written Feb. 20, 2020 Dear Reader, So, it turns out that Elon Musk isn't the mature, self-assured adult we all thought he was. Who would have guessed that a man who sells $500 garden torches, referring to them as "flame throwers," smokes Bob Marley spliffs during Joe Rogan interviews, and discloses substantive, non-public information pertaining to the share pricing of his multi-billion dollar company on Twitter isn't rock solid when it comes to controlling his feely-feels. His most recent tour de force of emotional stability came this week, again via Twitter, after Microsoft founder Bill Gates made his recent choice of personal automotive conveyance public. Instead of going with a Tesla, which (to many) wasn't just the obvious choice but the only one, Bill went with a competing design from legendary German performance brand Porsche. Gates' choice, the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, is an impressive machine by any standard, but by the standards that matter the most when it comes to EV performance, it rises above everything else out there. Supercar-Caliber Performance The numbers speak for themselves: 750 horsepower. 774 pound-foot torque. Quarter mile in just shy of 10.5 seconds, at a speed of 130 miles per hour. It's the fastest electric vehicle ever tested by Motor Trend, matching the $2 million Ferrari LaFerrari, the fastest (one-quarter mile time/speed) vehicle ever tested by Motor Trend, to 60 miles per hour, in a spleen-rupturing 2.4 seconds. Now, to be clear, Tesla's top of the line Model S actually edges out the entire field to 60 miles per hour by .1 seconds, but past that, it rapidly loses ground. At the 100 mile-per-hour mark, the Tesla and the Porsche are neck and neck, and by the time the one-quarter-mile finish line comes around, the Porsche is ahead by .04 seconds and seven miles per hour. Just for the sake of comparison, the hybrid LaFerrari is 18 and 23 miles per hour faster at the quarter-mile mark than the Taycan and Model S, respectively. But that's beside the point. The Tesla S and the Porsche Taycan are so close in terms of off-the-line performance that it hardly makes a difference. When choosing between the two, other factors come into play. Economist issues warning so scary Russia kills him for it. See his prediction. On September 17, 1938, near Moscow, an economist named Nicolai was executed. His crime? Predicting the fall of the Soviet Empire by developing what is still today the most accurate forecasting tool known to science. Now, this remarkable chart has issued its gravest warning ever — striking fear in the heart of experts worldwide. Discover its terrifying prediction... and learn HOW you can protect yourself. [Shocking video reveals the truth.]( The Numbers That Matter The Taycan charges faster, taking 22 minutes to reach 80% to Tesla's 40 minutes. But the Tesla will go farther, 370 miles to the Porsche's 287. In terms of price, the Tesla wins, too. It starts at $79,990, with the top model coming in at $130,200. The Porsche starts at $103,800, with the apex model Turbo S costing north of $185,000. Though to Gates, the $55,000 difference is like choosing between a small and a medium coffee at McDonald's. Then we come to looks. They say that taste is subjective, but in some cases, the subject can be plain wrong — and this is one of those cases. You've seen the Tesla S... [teslas] Here's the Porsche. [taycan] Sure, they're somewhat similar. There Is No Substitute Both have four doors and comparable proportions, but the Porsche is better looking. Period. Say what you want on this matter. I don't care. Anybody who claims that the Model S is sexier than the Taycan is better off getting a Smart car and calling it a day. Put all of these factors together, and Bill's choice is fully defensible. He wanted to be responsible and buy an EV, and he chose the one he wanted, with no compromises. And what does Elon do when he catches wind? He takes to Twitter, of course, and fires off a glib, passive-aggressive kiss off worthy of a high school cheerleader who just lost her spot as the pyramid topper. [taycan] To cut through the confusion, the parent tweet refers to Bill's complaints of hard-to-find charging stations, not his choice of car. But Musk's response, given the context, is simply laughable. You can almost picture him, sulking in a darkened room somewhere in his 20,000-square-foot Bel-Air mansion, trying to decide whether a dreary moment like this is better suited to indica or sativa. "Hey Madison, did you see Olivia's dismount at the game last night??!!" Madison: "Meh, it was... whatever." Shut up Madison. Go take your Contrave. I know, I know; I'm probably doing a bit of overreacting myself here, but I'm not alone. Dozens of news outlets have covered this non-story since the tweet three days ago. Did You Know... There’s a regulation in the United States that keeps fat cat investors from getting too rich... A regulation that outright bans people with too much money from investing in a certain sector of the market. But get this... 75 of the 100 highest-returning shares in the past 20 years have come straight from this sector of the market. [Click here to find out how you can invest in the Wall Street blacklist.]( Musk Fanbois Unite! I guess it's just hard to imagine a guy like Bill Gates getting characterized as underwhelming by anybody, billionaire or not. The last high-profile tech tycoon to do that was Steve Jobs, who called Microsoft products "third-rate" back in the mid '80s. At the time of that comment, Apple was about to descend into a decade-long dark age, and Jobs was on his way out; Bill was on his way to becoming the richest guy in the world. No matter how you look at it, the jab was infantile. What Musk should be more concerned with isn't the free publicity Gates is giving to Porsche but, rather, the problems with the Tesla product line. And I'm talking about the entire product line, including the as-of-yet unreleased Roadster, which Musk has already claimed will break the mythical two-second barrier for zero to 60 miles per hour. You see, Teslas, as well as every EV on the road today, all suffer from one common defect. [It's an old problem]( (much older than the company), and it's profound, contributing not just to cost of maintenance and potential catastrophic failures, but limited range and performance. [This problem dates back to the very first electric motors ever built]( and sadly, has been inherited by the most modern iterations of the device. [Read more about this engineering conundrum]( and learn about how one company finally found [the solution](. 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