I think that Tesla is getting some unwanted, undeserved political backlash from the "renewable energy is bad" crowd. These are the people who deny climate change, think oil will always be the best energy source, energy saving light bulbs are bad, and these are some of the same folks who always have a dozen reasons why they would never buy an EV vehicle. The same mindset occurs with some of the media outlets, like cable news and especially the business and financial market news outlets, TESLA is often categorized as being a "Liberal" company who got a "socialist" government loan, I even heard Elon Musk called "crazy" on the air by the media talking heads on CNBC because he wants to go to Mars and he has a clean energy vision for future transportation. TESLA is not politically motivated as far as I can tell, electrically powered cars are in ALL of our futures, whether you are Independent, Conservative or Liberal, almost everyone will be driving "Tesla like" cars in the near future. I guess people like to drag their feet when it comes to accepting new technology, once we get a taste of it, we tend to never want to go back, like the way smartphones and computers were at first resisted, but then eventually accepted, so it will be with electric cars.
View attachment 65734Just wait until Elon Musk invents the anti gravity drive vehicle, the technophobic foot draggers will have a field day!