Edward Niedermeyer

Then, of course, there are his claims of wanting clean, renewable energy.

Our pal Ed Niedermeyer back in 2015, he did a road trip in California to check out some of the superchargers that Tesla was promoting that would allow people to basically charge their cars as quickly as you could fill up a tank of gas in your car.

And what did he find out? These superchargers were being powered by diesel generators to fulfill the promise that Musk had made.

There's a bit of showmanship there, a bit of pay no attention to the man behind the curtain in the way that Musk presents things.

I'm Kirsten Korosec, Transportation Editor at TechCrunch.

And I'm Ed Niedermeyer.

I'm the author of Ludicrous, the Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors and Elon Take the Wheel, which Publishers Weekly calls enthralling.

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It was really kind of a foundational moment.

It's something that was pointed out to me by a guy named Ed Niedermeyer, who wrote a book called Ludicrous and also an interesting kind of financial blogger named Lawrence Fossey.

And when I went and saw the footage, I was kind of gobsmacked.

Because it's almost like something you would see at Magic Castle.

Well, that was interesting.

That, I found out about it through a guy named Ed Niedermeyer.

He wrote a wonderful book called Ludicrous, which was about the kind of the myth-making at Tesla, and he pointed that out, and then a, a short seller named Lawrence Fossi, who's interviewed in the film, also pointed it out as something that he saw.

It, it's really a magnificent moment.

But he does it once in this demo, which is, you know, he, i- it's a set.

It's a stage set, right? And then never does it again.

He has these places you're, you're supposed to be able to do it, but this guy Ed Niedermeyer went and saw it.

It never happened.

A- and, and that was one of the interesting things I discovered.

Early on, you know, I, I made contact with a guy named Ed Niedermeyer, who's in the film briefly, who had written a book called Ludicrous, which really looked at the vast disparity between what Elon Musk said Tesla was and what Tesla really was.

And it's not like they're aren't great cars.

I mean, I still talk to people who, who rhapsodize about their Tesla S.

And then they set up these battery swap stations.

And an enterprising reporter named Ed Niedermeyer just went out to see the station.

And they're there.

They have the garages.