Another SLOW Month in Non-Tesla Murrkin EV News

Lucid have actually delivered some vehicles to customers! I don't know how many.

 

So what do you think, is Lucid currently delivering units at a faster pace than Rivian?

Rivian has said they will deliver 1,000 units in 2021, so I think the only question about that is, how late in 2022 will the 1,000th unit be delivered? (I'm highly confident that they can do it before January 1, 2023.)

Seriously, though, I wish Rivian and Lucid well. And Bollinger, and Farraday Future and Fisker, and... I was about to say "and Nikola too," but it's really hard to wish those assholes well.

But someone has to crush Tesla.

Another question: Musk has always said, in media interviews, that he wishes nothing but success for anyone making EV's, and that Tesla want to do everything they can to help all of those other EV manufacturers.

So my question is: am I actually the only person on Earth who sees that Musk is completely full of shit when he says those things? Does no-one else have the computing power in their brain-grease to see that, if Tesla was actually helping even a little bit, the combined deliveries of all non-Tesla Murrkin EV-only manufacturers would currently be a lot higher than a few hundred? (Not counting aftermarket conversions, which I would guess number in the thousands in the US alone by now.)

 

Am I the only one on Earth who suspects Tesla of actual illegal interference with other EV manufacturers? Not just everyday hardball business-as-usual dirty tricks, but actual completely illegal sabotage? Answer me! Am I the only one? I did a Google search, tesla sabotage of other ev manufacturers, all I got were some stories from 2018 about Musk yelling that someone had sabotaged Tesla, no doubt to divert from the latest horrible thing he himself had done. FEAR MY SUPER-POWERED AUTISTIC BRAIN-GREASE, MUSK! You fool all these others. Not me.

I'm Officially Predicting: Rivian and Lucid Will NEVER Deliver

For just a moment I thought Lucid had actually beat Rivian in getting one of their vehicles into the hands of an actual customer. I saw the partial headline: "CEO Peter Rawlinson Delivers Lucid Air..." And I thought: What? Lucid is making deliveries?! And Rawlinson himself dropped off the first one in person?! That's class! (Assuming that Rawlinson then actually left and let the customer have the vehicle to him- or herself.)  

But no: The entire headline reads: "CEO Peter Rawlinson Delivers Lucid Air Production Keynote Address." 

 

Actual customer ownership of a Rivian or a Lucid remains just a dream. It'll never happen. That's right: I said: NEVER. That is my official prediction concerning when both of these companies will deliver vehicles: never. But they'll continue to make big splashy headlines on every other conceivable topic, of course... 

PS, Sep 2023: I was wrong, of course. Rivian is closing in on 6 figures of light trucks and SUV's plus who know how many bread trucks sold to Amazon and others, and Lucid makes AND SELLS very nice cars that'll do a standing 1/4 mile quicker than anything else that costs less than 7 figures.