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mark242 | 11 months ago

Tesla is only in business today because it was able to sell carbon credits to other automakers. Take that government subsidy away and Tesla would have died in 2009.

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ZeroGravitas|11 months ago

Without supportive Californian policies Tesla would never even have existed for Musk to buy into.

The modern EV was born from Californian regulation but that early lead has been squandered.