A publicity stunt. You make an outlandish claim, it backfires, you get on the front page of literally every website, and literally everyone talking about it. I bet that was the plan all along.
Sounds like with this thinking they knew the Truckla wouldn’t be that exciting so let’s do this glass demo and pretend it wasn’t intentional. Gotta get them clicks I guess. With this it makes me think they’re falling out of relevance and needed something to spring to the top again. Just make good stuff and improve the service network. We’ve had a few Tesla car buyers on the forums that go through hell just to get a car, why not invest there? Sure it’s not the new cool thing to do but you’ll retain customers...