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    Elon Musk is at war with everyone from regulators to stock analysts to a Thai child rescuer

    by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times Jul 17, 2018 5 minutes

    SAN FRANCISCO - "Do you think I'm insane?"

    That's the first line in the first chapter in the bestselling biography of Elon Musk by author Ashley Vance. Musk had asked Vance the question over dinner.

    Vance dodged the subject. But anyone monitoring Musk's Twitter feed and other public behavior lately might well wonder what's got into the CEO of Tesla Inc.

    At a crucial juncture for the company, which is struggling to show it can mass-produce an electric sedan and generate cash, Musk has tangled very publicly with government regulators, stock analysts, journalists, former employees - even the creator of a farting-unicorn coffee mug.

    On Sunday morning, after a rescue diver took to CNN to criticize as a "PR stunt" Musk's offer of a small submarine to transport a Thai soccer team out of a flooded labyrinthine cave, Musk called the man a "pedo" on Twitter

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