An emotional Elon Musk thanks the people who are still waiting to get their Model 3

He built up PayPal (and it would have been better if they kept him on).

This is one of his 3 achievements. This is where he made all of his money.

He has delivered 3 different revolutionary electric vehicles with at least two more designs on the way

different models of sedan are not in any way different on the design side. 1 vehicle, that costs 70+k, whereas competition costs 10-20.

(pickup and semi, not sure if the pickup is model Y). Maybe you don't see the value but the public does. Tesla has the highest stock price of any auto manufacturer right now.

Speculation was a bad thing in 2008, and elons single greatest achievement is getting the stock that high without having any tangible evidence to back 90% of his claims.

Enhanced battery design. Including the powerwall and powerpacks. Now in use by major utility companies.

Nobody is using the power wall or powerpack in any meaningful sense.

Major advancements in solar technologies and propagation of those technologies including solar tiles that don't look ugly on your roof. They're expensive right now but it may replace conventional tiles in the future.

May. May is the operative word. Those tiles are literally 2,200% more expensive than conventional, and have literally zero testing.

In the future it may be used to create Martian tunnels.

If things work out for ITS, he may be the first to get us to Mars.

Elon has no Mars plans, he has plans to say things to generate stock purchase.

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