Elon Musk on Letterman ~ ©CBS Broadcasting Inc.

[normalais]

WTF did he get his tonsils pulled out just before the show?

[phusian93]

Sometimes Letterman makes some good points...and then sometimes he's just making noise! I'm glad this video points out the important note Elon was trying to make at the end.

[Ondelendo]

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[bundawartini]

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[cast725]

I definitely want one.

[clubheadxtasy2]

what the fuck is wrong with his voice?

[tipoomaster]

So, what was his "very important point" at the end? 

[adtrived]

@tipoomaster i think you get a $7500 tax credit if you buy the car.

[tipoomaster]

God the Model S is so pretty....Someone lend me 50 grand? 

[josephfoster30]

Lettermans an asshole not even letting him talk

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

As i have already told you, the model s IS superior to most, if not all models on the road today. I have also already proven that over time the model s is MUCH cheaper than other luxury cars all while being one of the fastest accelerating, largest storage space, and less of a pollutant to the environment.

Btw it is a proven fact that Atheists have a higher average IQ than any religious group.

Also, 93% of scientists classify themselves as agnostic/atheist.

Damn that must hurt...

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

I have already told you that it's been proven to have around the same range EVEN WITH aggressive driving. In fact, driving slow, it's actually MORE than 300 miles. Its heavy yet it still has one of the quickest acceleration times.

It's expensive yet it cost less than a regular sedan over time.

Low top speed yet there is no highway with a 125+mph speed limit.

Electric vehicles are growing faster than any other type of car.

Over 49 million non-religious people in America.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

"and people are still not buying them"

Where did you get this illusion? You do realize that nearly every major car manufacturer is making/has made electric cars to soon be released right?

No advantage other than it saves money? Really? So i guess the WHOLE REASON electric vehicles came to popularity has no playing card? You once again refuse to acknowledge that the model s is LOADS better to the environment, which was the whole point.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

Continued-

And you're also forgetting that the Model s not only has a quicker 0-60 than the audi s6 and 550 but it also has INSTANT torque which results in a much more pleasurable acceleration. AND it has a longer range on a single charge. AND it costs less to fuel AND it's 10x better for the environment.

Ford, Toyata, GM, and many other major car manufacturers wouldn't be constructing fully electric vehicles if they didn't KNOW that it is the future.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

You idiot. Car manufacturers wouldn't be building EV's if they didn't know they were going to make money off of it. Your excuses are becoming more infantile by the second.

Proper power? Lol EV's have INSTANT torque you imbecile.

I think everyone reading these comments will see how much you were obliterated.

EV's are going to get quicker to charge every year, and with longer range.

You're going to feel so stupid in 15 years when the majority of new cars are either hybrid or fully EV

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

Implying that you "know" a lot of people. EV's have been to many different car shows, so saying no one wants to buy them is just silly.

You haven't seen an EV? i see them all the time. And they haven't even been put into mainstream use YET. This is all going to change with the model s.

What happens if it won't start? What happens if your gas car wont start?

And you will look like a tool in 30 years when you have a gas guzzling car and everyone else has EV.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

Lol you don't even have to acknowledge the fact that i have intellectually obliterated you and all of your silly excuses. electric cars won't be as unreliable as gas cars you idiot, that's plain and simple. Lol you fail at everything. And ONCE AGAIN you are refusing to admit that the EV is early in it's development. It's like you're expecting a 1998 ipod to have video.

"MR. 15 years this and 30 years that"

Do you understand how incredibly ignorant that sounds?

Just watch and see.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

What's funny is that in the future, there's going to be so many regulations on gas guzzling cars that you're going to be paying out your ass for "loving" those cars.

And again, EV's are growing extremely fast. It's an extremely childish way of thinking if you honestly think that EV's should be the main vehicle on the road when it's barely 2011.

Modern EV's have just come about and you expect them to already be the dominating force on the road.

How hilarious.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

6000? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA exaggerating there? 6000 is just ONE company. There are MANY different companies who will sell MUCH more. Ever heard of Ford? Or Toyota? lol you fail at life.

And yes, you can make accurate predictions about the future of car manufacturing by looking at how things are going. Nearly every major manufacturer is releasing EV's.

It is inevitable and you know it.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

Lol your only excuse is that EV's WILL and are GOING TO be dominant? That's your only excuse? That they haven't already been dominant, so that means they won't? How can you not understand how silly this argument is?

Are you denying the FACT that ford, toyota, and many other major brands have ALREADY developed EVs waiting to be released?

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

"Why are you still here"

ARE YOU SERIOUS? last time i checked, YOU responded to what I said, and continue the conversation.

It's quite hilarious how you think someone can't talk about something until it actually comes out. What a pathetic little argument THAT is.

You seem to throw away the whole possibility that EV's are growing, purely because the mass market isn't open YET.

Yet you seem to forget that MANY car manufacturer have ALREADY developed EV's, waiting to be released.

[Buttnut105]

@vigorousAtheist No I acknowledge the fact that EV's are being built but that's purely because of political pressure and you're pretty naive if you think otherwise. Still, nothing you've said amounts to anything as none of it has happened yet so again I ask, why the fuck are you even here arguing with me? You're just throwing your predictions yet you say I'm wrong. How bout this? I'll check in in 30 years and tell you if I feel stupid or not. Your EV crap will still be a joke. I'm done here

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

"but that's purely because of political pressure"

This is utter ridiculousness and you know it. Car companies would NOT make cars unless they thought they were going to make money.

I've never heard of ANY car manufacturer making a car PURELY because the government told them so.

And last time i checked, it was YOU who started the argument here.

Yet another fail on your part.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

continued-

All of those statistics are countered by you merely saying that it charges overnight, and that it's top speed is weak, yet the everyday person rarely find him/herself going over 125 mph. It has a longer range than the average car, has the most storage space, less cost to fuel, one of the highest acceleration, and above all, it's over 2x more environmentally safe than a prius. You ignorantly look past all of these facts.

[Trollin4Dat]

letterman hit the nail on the head....past ev cars were total crap.....that's why tesla will succeed

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

Shitty range? Wow. i have already proven to you that the model s has a longer range than most cars on the road today. that excuse is no longer valid. Even the "shitty range" one gets well over the national average of miles driven per day.

And you only took into account the fuel consumption to lower the cost, yet you ignored the fact that you wouldn't need maintenance. Toyota's still need maintenance.

You also are forgetting the tax breaks you get with the model s.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

continued-

According to the EPA, Americans spend around $2500 on average per year on fuel alone. That equates to $25,000 over 10 years. Cut that in 5ths and that's what you'll get for electricity, if not more.

And this isn't including the MAINTAINABILITY costs which can easily cost in the ten thousand dollars over 10 years.

THIS is how the model s costs less than a toyota over it's lifetime.

[MINN3APOLIS]

HAHAHA! at 4:10 that's good humor mentioning GM

[kevinmsft]

And what the HELL is Letterman doing at 10:35? No wonder no one watches him...

[kevinmsft]

@Buttnut105

Please go back to school to study English.

I said 335i is not sub-5.

CTS-V is mor expensive than Tesla.

And SHO is shit.

All of those above is true.

I also think you are an ill-informed, FoxNews-watching, redneck, Tea-party idiot. Go back to drive your F150 please.

[Buttnut105]

@kevinmsft No I'm not ill-informed, nor do I watch Fox news, nor am I a member of the tea party and I don't own an F150. Whatever though. If you want to make up shit like that other pretentious cock sucker, go ahead. I know I'm right.

[vigorousAtheist]

@Buttnut105

"are a hell of a lot faster"

Lol show me a sedan in service right now that has a 0-60 in 5 seconds and is less than $60,000.

And the range issue is meaningless, being that the overwhelming majority of drivers don't even come CLOSE to driving more than 300 miles in a single day.

Oh by the way, i was wrong about it charging in a couple of hours. There's a new system that can charge in 30 minutes.

[BernardVisagie]

Hydrogen is the better option in the long run though...

[anarchosolar]

@BernardVisagie BOLLOCKS !! Hydrogen is for maniacs !! one word HINDENBURG !!

Apart from electric cars being able to run on solar and the fact that hydrogen cars NEED an electric motor anyway....a hydrogen vehicle is a bomb waiting to go off...try a freeway pileup with hydrogen !!

ALL ELECTRICS is the ONLY way to go !!

[TOTCD]

Look it's Tony Stark!

[Southerly93]

wash your hands elon, sounds like david has something nasty

[whole27]

Letterman can be immature but i respect his liberal views against the wars even when that was still a touchy issue, he destroyed guys like OReilly on his show and Letterman spoke out about how the white house took down solar panels b/c of the electric companies sway and now how electric cars were destroyed by the oil companies who work with the American car makers

[abcd12345]

damn i feel embarrassed for david

[asleepMS2]

letterman puberty

[angelo171]

he done so much with millions imagine if he had bill gates money

[heartlessvietboy]

The Tesla Model S is a Battery Vehicle. It can go 300 miles on a single charge and be charged in just 30 minutes. That's a Big improvement compared to 8 hours. The future should see even faster charge times. Go Tesla Model S!!!

[leezaal]

@heartlessvietboy Need to get your facts right mate it can not be charged in 30mins not by a long shot. yes its a great car but we dont have the infrastructure for these yet, i guess we have been spoilt by 100 years of development putting petrol stations around the world.

[heartlessvietboy]

The future will be EV1 buses and Magnetic Lift Trains. Land is getting scarce. Some regions are building up for population growth. More Farms will be needed to provide healthy food for the world. Fish Farming is a solution however so far I think Fish seeding in the open ocean is a better alternative.  We need to lessen balogny production and centralize material resources. We need to shut down television (Wall Street Spin-Off Stations) and start all over.

[MrZuluMale]

if we all drove electric cars and someone came out with the petrol car we would all look at him as though he was mad. "Wait, you want to build a car with thousands of moving parts that will wear and need replacing regularly, then you want us to fill it with highly flammable liquid and then you want us to use it to create 20,000+ explosions per minuet, all so that in the off chance i need to drive over 300miles i can... get f*&ked."

[rrace2]

I just wish people wern't so uneducated about electricity. Your internal combustion engine has over 2000 moving parts, it wastes soooo much energy in the form of heat. You have to change, oil, filters, gaskets, valves, belts etc. BUT with an induction motor ( ie. electric motor) only the rotor is turning and there are only barrings* that you need to change maybe once every 5 years!!! ONLY 2 PARTS! Think about that! one cylinder rotating inside another and you only need 2 barrings!

[kevtom]

the real reason they came out with a 100k Roadster is because that's the vehicle Martin Eberhard (the real founder of Tesla) wanted as his next car. it's not b/c of the reason elon said

[kevtom]

the real reason they came out with a 100k Roadster is because that's the vehicle Martin Eberhard wanted as his next car. it's not b/c of the reason elon said

[03vetdude]

lol letterman sounds like his voice is changing

[SpartanZN3]

need a ricola?

[quelorepario]

Letterman, let him talk for God's sake.

[wedingo]

GM pwned by Letterman 

[69AfroThunda69]

It's Letterman's show. He can do what he wants. He could have not had Musk on at all, which would have been great since I wouldn't have to read all of your whiny comments.

[sebastiansz]

Letterman is in favour of space exploration... not like many people say that space exploration is a waste of money. Letterman even saw with his own eyes Space Shuttle launch + on his show he interviewed astronaut Mike Massimino (you can find it on youtube)

[rampike74]

He needs to have his throat examined.

[chevezez]

something crawled up his throat and died that day

[firefox39693]

He sounds sooo raspy!

[breadsoup2001]

I like it when Letterman said that he was afraid that the Electricity in the car would magnetize his nuts. LOL

[spencercjohnson]

Wow way to cut off poor elon

[Winne777]

this is interesting information about a product that was due many decades ago...

[ray321123]

YouTube Search: Heartland Horror

[MuslimAthiest]

That Car is SEXY!!!! sssssssss

[thc1114]

wow david letterman couldn't be more annoying. Elon Musk finally gets a chance to promote his contribution to the world and letterman will not shut up! Let the man speak! That's why i watch Leno......lol

[stang661]

Too bad Leno is a zero LOL zone. Always being annoying by saying yeah 100 times an interview. He's busted his monologue up into look at this not funny video! A hack with unfunny material. Stuff we found Ebay? and Look folks here's a video I pulled of the net that everyone has for 5 years but I am selling as new and unseen. Jim Norton sucks worst comedian ever, Ross the intern sucks as does John Melendez, stuttering John on Howard Stern. Leno what happens when you don't care or stayed 2 long.

[snowblind8998]

my friend just leaked a video of elon giving meg whitman a dirty sanchez

[cys12141]

what happened to DL's voice?

[clawdfrawg]

"... let alone a GM product"

[eaquadros1]

C'mon Letterman, why did you have to screw that ending? Stupid electric joke. Now I'll never know what he was going to say...

[franwex]

@eaquadros1 Seriously. Damn douche.

[tinkusoccer]

Great interview,except for the ending when Letterman screams like an asshole! Btw that is sexy car...I hope I could afford one in future.

[MINN3APOLIS]

@tinkusoccer I didn't know what you were talking about until I actually saw it. That was pathetic.

[RoPs007]

10:20 the guy was trying to say something but the fucking old man dont let musk talk to make that fucking stupid eletric joke. FUCK you letterman

[SecretName25]

Great video, i want one. now.

[bonds911]

imagine california taking on detroit not far away i hope california goes green and big

[Son37Lumiere]

Anyone happen to know what Elon was going to say before Letterman interrupted him and made an ass of himself?

[justinbushaw]

what does Elon say about Mars at 6:05 ? Why does Dave mention mars in the first place? It just doesnt make any sense

[1robco1]

@justinbushaw He says "Haha... Funny that you mention Mars" and then Dave kindly interrupts him hah...

[1robco1]

@justinbushaw He says "Haha... Funny that you mention Mars" and then Dave kindly interrupts him hah.... In an interview with CNN at one point in time Elon said that he actually wants to get space travel far enough that he could retire on Mars. Maybe he was going to mention that. We'll never know!

[ixfxi]

letterman sure sucks

[boutdempapers]

how could u not love elon?

[kaz287]

whats up with lettermans voice?

[MrAntihumanism]

@kaz287

What do you think?

[kaz287]

@MrAntihumanism suckin too many dicks?

[MrAntihumanism]

@kaz287

plus a cold.

[kaz287]

@MrAntihumanism that too

[Nichen]

LOL guys seriously come on. It's pretty obvious that David Letterman is in favour of Tesla and electric cars and I think it was a pretty nice interview. It's obvious that people are interested, just listen to the audience "woooooow!" :)

[Collserra]

Fuck you David Letterman you are an arrogant fucking cunt. Elon musk is not only more successful and wealthy than you but he is also trying to change the world for good with SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Maybe if you thought for one second before taking the complete fucking piss out of Elon then you would have realised that you should be honored to have someone of his magnitude on youre show. But of course you didnt because you think you are above everyone else. Again. FUCK YOU DAVID LETTERMAN!

[spindiamond]

Why did Letterman ruin this interview with his ranting and stupid jokes and just let the guy tell us about the car? I really wanted to hear what the guy was going to say!

[regalgsx]

fuck you letterman you cock sucking motherfucker

[okavipra]

@regalgsx honestly , you said it all dude, what a f@cking moron . . .

[itloads]

pfff i have great respect for this guy! Keeps pushing the boundries!

[captainobvious9999]

and this is why I dont watch Letterman. Ass....

[johnson1095]

6:50- That IS crap!

[johnson1095]

HOLY SHIT! I've never heard Dave this bad. would it kill him to stay home for a few days?

[trekgeek1]

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Could he have started with a better way to say "Hey, shut up a minute, I have something to say"? He tried twice to tell him something and he just pretended to be electrocuted. I think he did the EXACT same joke with the Chevy Volt.

[razrdude]

Letterman is a fucking retard, learn how to run a show, and stop cutting of Elon when he actually has something important to say. Ruined what could have potentially been an awesome ep showcasing the model s.

[miankd]

I usually like letterman, but he was a complete douche in this interview.

[dkgong]

The model S will be produced in Fremont, CA at the old NUMMI plant where they laid off all those auto workers earlier this year. This is really uplifting news! Go Tesla/Toyota!

[Cerberus221]

Where can I get some "Elon Musk" Eau de Toilette? ^^. Seriously though...Model S owns. As a young Brit finding myself wanting to buy an American car is a new experience.

[aakash1O1]

David Letterman is a degenerate. I can't believe Elon Musk is wasting his time on his stupid show.

[Chant88]

he didn't let him speak .. lol

[getreadytotube]

Letterman cut him off at the end...the jerk!

[WildMaverick1200]

"that's crap!"

ROFL

[boxa888]

we can also do wireless power like nikola tesla wanted, this would give electric cars infinite milage! i put up videos showing a basic wireless electricity setup, it is possible! tesla electric car would have infinite milage! great video thanks alot!

[propheticsquiddy]

Great to see this video finally hitting youtube! go tesla!

[MisterZilchy]

The Tesla is awesome. Can't wait for the sedan to come out. Dave, though you made a mistake on the info, Meyers Motors makes the NMG and it can go on the highway and travel at speeds in excess of 65mph. Love your show David.

[Nichen]

Don't remove this video dude like they did the first time this was up on youtube.

[NMevideos]

@Nichen Don't worry - this video is the whole reason I made this account ;P

[Nichen]

That's awesome dude :)

[boxa888]

@NMevideos i like the side comments! awesome its sooo true!!

[MrLightningFace]

@NMevideos than you are awsome

[insightllc]

@Nichen TESLA MADE EARTHQUAKES IN 1899.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1899

SEPTEMBER 6, 1899

SEPTEMBER 9, 1899

"IF YOU ONLY KNEW THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE THREE, THE SIX AND THE NINE... THEN YOU WOULD HAVE A KEY TO THE UNIVERSE."

-NIKOLA TESLA

(AFTER CAUSING 1899 CAPE YAKATAGA AND YAKUTAY BAY EARTHQUAKES FROM COLORADO SPRINGS)

111 YEAR OLD RIDDLE SOLVED BITCHES. THAT IS WHY YOU CAN'T DATE THAT QUOTE. THAT IS WHY HE ELUDES RECOGNITION. THAT IS THE SIMPLE TRUTH THEY DILUTE WITH CONSPIRACY.

-CMS 2010

[sirachman]

@amaka56 The Letterman show is all about guess who, Letterman..