Can someone explain the reverence conservatives have for Elon Musk?

Well, from the amount of discrimination lawsuits, including by the State of California, for the working conditions at his Tesla assembly plants, we can guess what side of the apartheid issue in South Africa he was on before immigrating. Whoops! He couldn't be an immigrant because he isn't a murdering rapist with dark skin for whom English is a second language. And he has the proper ego, bloviates enough, and has a better success rate than he whom we shall not name -- even if his hair isn't orange.

This absolutely does NOT apply to all conservatives. But... among many
There tends to be distrust of:
* Politicians
* Scientists
* Universities
* Educated people
* Professionals
* Anything left wing
* Non-Christian religions
There tends to be blame and disdain for:
* The poor
* People of other races
* Welfare or those who need it.
There tends to be respect for:
* People who work hard.
* Wealthy people like billionaires. 'They work hard.' They earn it. Apparently.

This last one is a serious puzzle, but it's there. So Trump has positioned himself as a successful man, not in any of those groups they distrust (politicians, university educated, etc) - in fact ready to drain the swamp. He played on all of the negative lists here to strengthen his popularity. He rings each bell and they respond.

Kinda similar to trump. They claim to hate elites, politicians, etc even though trump is all of those things, and he actively donated to politicians over the years that they would brand as radical leftists or Rinos

I think most conservatives are just bandwagon followers. So why is there an Elon Musk bandwagon?

To some Musk is their idea of John Galt, hero of Atlas Shrugged. And there's some truth in that. His first business, Zip2, an online business directory, was successful and Musk personally made about $22M when it sold. He then started what morphed into Paypal, and cleared about $175 million when that sold. He then bought heavily into Tesla and then started SpaceX.

That's four different businesses brought up to large scale & profitability, three of which he was in from the very beginning. It's an awfully good track record, even with the caveats. The caveats are that Tesla benefited greatly from EV tax incentives (those were there for every fledgling EV maker though); and SpaceX benefited greatly from a billion or two in a series of NASA grants & contracts while getting started (AFAIK SpaceX bid competitively for the contracts).

I think cons see Musk as a poster boy for old fashioned capitalism. I think the truth is he's a poster boy for great engineering management, plus industry cooperating with government. I personally think that he personally is kind of an ass, and I will always credit him for dragging the world's auto industries kicking and screaming into the electric age.

Here's how Musk describes himself (at times; don't expect consistency)

He's a huge Ayn Rand fan.

Most of the people who worship him are the hyper capitalist crypto bros who also worship Jordan Belfort and Grant Cardone which explains alot.

And most of that is true except the Tesla thing. All Musk did was buy the company and lauched the Tesla he promised to the founder into orbit in a tantrum.

You've made a general statement, you hypocrite.

It's exactly the same phenomenon that finds people like you lionizing Democrat candidates like Jon Fetterman or Beto O'rourke in that they are supported and celebrated by the media and personalities that you find compelling and believable. Then you find yourself in an echo chamber that just reinforces what you already believe.

Well, I think they are attracted to his big-talk persona. What he does, what he believes, and his achievements and failures are less important to them.

As a full-fledged Moderate, I appreciate his business skills, but question his crippled view on key social issues and global dynamics. He seems more of an idiot savant.

He looks like a squirrel in the face I don’t understand either, they tend to idolize him. The cars are a statue symbol for corporate Republican snobs, I’m guessing that’s how it got started.

Hard to say. Republicans love their guns and big gas guzzling Chevy pick ups yet Elon is all about EV.
Republicans hate big tech with a passion yet Elon is worth Billions, as is Tesla.

Not much of a contradiction at all….

my take on Elon Musk is that he's todays scape coat to use for new inventions , i mean how can one single man keep coming up with all these new technologies and stuff ?

I didn't know this was a thing so maybe you're lumping us all together.

Yes. That's the kill nature and bring on the fictional apocalypse boys club.

Cause Trump and Musk are both supporters of Putin, and most of the GOP is...

Hes rich 🤑 and promised to allow Trump back on Twitter

Musk is Trump in the larval stage.

He’s an Afrikaner, so they’re prepared to be sympathetic towards his status as an "oppressed white person".
Then of course, he’s rich.