Elon Musk has claimed that Bill Gates 'is not strong in the sciences' after a tense meeting at Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where the Microsoft co-founder allegedly told him in person that a long‑range Tesla Semi truck was impossible, despite the vehicles already being in commercial use.
For context, Musk and Gates have been sparring in public for years over clean‑energy strategy, electric vehicles and philanthropy. Gates has questioned the practicality of battery‑powered heavy trucks in his writing, while Musk has framed Tesla as the living rebuttal to that scepticism.
