Elon Musk’s Greatest Hits in Pictures

When Elon Musk whipped the veils off his latest gobsmacking products Thursday night, he capped a seven-year string of dramatic innovations reminiscent of Apple's headiest days. Because it wasn't enough to say, Ta-da, here's the world’s fastest long-haul semi truck, Musk reached into his bag of tricks and pulled out a new Tesla Roadster, a tribute to the product that established Tesla Inc. as a maker of ultra-fast electric cars. 

Even the biggest bag of tricks has a bottom. The current rollout of the Model 3, the mass-production electric car critical to Tesla's success, is lagging behind Musk's excited predictions, and the Roadster's emergence from the belly of the new Semi on Thursday had something of the sideshow about it.