Apparently it was junked in a purge of old blog posts. There is some implication in the story that the purge may have been done, at least in part, to hide potential evidence from investigations into Tesla's autonomy software.
The posts are also unavailable in the Internet Archive. Do you think that Musk will post a new "master plan"? If he does, how do you think will it differ from the 2006 version? > Elon Musk´s 18-year-old manifesto in which the tech entrepreneur laid > out his vision for the electric car maker shortly after its first > public event has vanished from the company´s blog page, along with all > posts by Musk and Tesla executives before 2019. > The "Secret Master Plan," the company´s de facto constitution, laid > out Musk´s perspective that Tesla´s key purpose was to show how > electric vehicles and solar power could help fight climate change, in > part by creating more and more affordable EVs - a view that has > dramatically changed with the billionaire's politics in recent years. > This month, Musk appeared to break with his earlier views on the risks > of relying on carbon-spewing oil and gas, in his interview with > climate-skeptic Donald Trump, who he´s endorsed for president. > It´s a far cry from his positions from Tesla´s early days: "The > overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the > company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon > economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the > primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution," Musk wrote in the > 2006 blog. In it, he also promised that each successive Tesla model > would be cheaper than one that preceded it, with a goal of making EVs > widely affordable. > The updated version of his vision, "Master Plan, Part Deux," published > July 20, 2016, ahead of Tesla´s acquisition of failing Musk-backed > solar panel installer SolarCity, also is no longer available. The text > and images of the missing blogs can be found on numerous Tesla fan > sites, but they´re also no longer accessible via the Wayback Machine > internet archive. Full story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/08/26/elon-musk-climate- manifesto-vanishes-from-tesla-website/ Shortcut URL: https://cntp.me/GK3vJFM David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. -- Alfred Henry Lewis = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
