Podcast: Daniel Howes on Elon Musk’s meandering ways
Daniel Howes
The Detroit News

Detroit News Columnist Daniel Howes and Michigan Radio are partners in weekly essays examining what's hot in Michigan business and politics – and what it all means. This week, Howes says the offer by Tesla Inc.’s CEO to help deliver clean water to Flint is vintage Elon Musk: big on vision, but less so on execution. Maybe that’s why a major shareholder in the struggling electric-car maker used a recent interview to urge the mogul to “just concentrate on the core task.” For Musk, that means upping production of his compact Model 3 – or risk being forced to raise even more capital from increasingly wary investors.