[rich-w-big-ego]

Your analysis might make sense if money and profitability and staying solvent was what Elon was most interested in. However, money alone is not the goal; getting us off of oil is the goal. I think that Elon really wanted to make a mass-market car as soon as possible, which explains why he chose to take the harder path of making the mass-market car before the hypercar and the semi's.