Disrupting an industry as monolithic and conservative as passenger cars was always going to be a hard proposition, but for Elon Musk and Tesla its been easy to predict the constant bad press and naysayers.
Musk famously predicted that Tesla would start pumping out more than 5000 Model 3 cars each week by the end of June, mainly to meet the overwhelming consumer demand for the car (you don’t see anyone camping outside a Ford dealership to put a deposit down), but especially to defy the naysayers and fingerwaggers.
To that end, the company installed a massive tent outside their main factory in California, swiftly increasing its production capacity but not as fast as such a “radical” move has upset the critics.