Whoopsy:

How is this for stark contrast? between Elon's 2 companies, SpaceX and Tesla.

One can almost do no wrong, and mostly universally loved. That last SpaceX launch is quite something.

Perhaps it was because SpaceX is privately held, Elon doesn't need come out now and then to say something to prop up the stock price. It can focus more on what it CAN do.

Tesla on the other hand is quite almost like choosing a political party in the USA, there is almost no middle ground. Either one is a blind fanatic or one is a blind skeptic. 

Perhaps Tesla might work better if Elon take it private, away from the public eye so Elon doesn't have to talk big about it every 3 months. 

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch is really ground breaking. What an achievement! And Musk is for sure the mastermind of creating PR.

Tesla is far from being anywhere near as polarizing as politics (e.g. Trump lovers vs. Trump haters). Tesla is very polarizing in car communities and among companies that sees electrification as a threat against their revenues, but outside of that the general perception about Tesla is probably mostly positive or people don't care that much.

An interesting thought for sure what it would have looked like if Tesla would have taken the same route as Space X and not gone public...