Can Tesla Really Produce A $25,000 Self-Driving Electric Car?

During Tuesday’s much-hyped battery day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid out plans to put everyone behind the wheel (or is that sleeping in the back) of a $25,000 car that drives itself.Much of the three-hour-plus presentation was low on detail, high on promotion, and stratospheric on ambition, (it is ever thus) but Tesla’s plans to start mining seemed particularly simplistic.With great fanfare and 40 years after Chevron’s Thacker Pass, Tesla announced to the world – and to a parking lot – that there were significant untapped…