Tesla canceled the car of the century

By Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg

The first time I saw a Tesla Model S was also the first time I met Elon Musk.

It was 2011, and he had brought an early Model S to the West Side Highway in Manhattan, where we met to go for a drive. It didn’t strike me as a crucial meeting. In the course of my work as an automotive reporter, I met with plenty of people shilling new cars, and back then Musk was just the founder of a company that merged with another company that became PayPal. Only the wonkiest...