I'm a car guy so I've been following automotive electrification for a while, and in the earlier days, Electrek was a shameless Tesla fan blog. I occasionally followed a link and ended up there and felt like I was reading the thoughts of someone fully enveloped by Musk's reality distortion field. Lambert was an early investor in TSLA from the sound of it and just raved about Tesla cars and gushed about Musk.
Anyhow, I think it was the repeated moving of the goalposts for Full Self Driving, or maybe it was the Roadster 2.0 delays, or maybe it was the unhinged Twitter rants ... but anyhow, Lambert slowly became more critical of Musk (until the 2 had a falling out on Twitter), and Lambert now writes things like:
> Call me crazy, but I think the company would fair better with a competent full-time CEO instead of an egomaniac wannabe oligarch who consistently lies to shareholders, engages in resource tunneling with his private competing company, and is deeply lost in one of the worst cases of social media addiction that I’ve ever seen.
(from https://electrek.co/2025/02/04/theres-finally-some-tesla-tsl...)