Tesla getting the majority of subsidies is a sad state of affairs, that’s true. But I think it’s more due to the rest of the market being exceedingly slow to react than anything Tesla specifically did. Elon back then was overly optimistic in his timelines, but I don’t think it rose to the level of being a con man (now with Twitter / X and DOGE it’s a different story, I won’t argue with you on that!)
I wasn’t born in the 1970s so I don’t remember what the public opinion on EVs were at that time.
I won’t argue that Big Oil has always been up to nefarious things, but “creating Tesla” isn’t one of them.
Before he started radicalizing himself he was making 1 on 1 deals with Obama to guarentee subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX, Elon got tens of billions from the government and tens of billions from private investors through personal deals.
That’s why he got most of them
But i agree that American car manufacturers had been coasting for a long time before Tesla ate their lunch.
Tesla getting the majority of subsidies is a sad state of affairs, that’s true. But I think it’s more due to the rest of the market being exceedingly slow to react than anything Tesla specifically did. Elon back then was overly optimistic in his timelines, but I don’t think it rose to the level of being a con man (now with Twitter / X and DOGE it’s a different story, I won’t argue with you on that!)
I wasn’t born in the 1970s so I don’t remember what the public opinion on EVs were at that time.
I won’t argue that Big Oil has always been up to nefarious things, but “creating Tesla” isn’t one of them.
Before he started radicalizing himself he was making 1 on 1 deals with Obama to guarentee subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX, Elon got tens of billions from the government and tens of billions from private investors through personal deals.
That’s why he got most of them
But i agree that American car manufacturers had been coasting for a long time before Tesla ate their lunch.