I'm also a Tesla skeptic, but when it comes to the core business of making electric cars that people want to buy they are clearly delivering. Other companies ar

I'm also a Tesla skeptic, but when it comes to the core business of making electric cars that people want to buy they are clearly delivering. Other companies are simply not competitive yet. While other companies made electric cars over the last few years, they were compliance vehicles that were not intended to have mass market appeal. For example, until recently these vehicles have looked aggressively different vs the conservative, simple designs of the Model S or 3. Even today, directly competing vehicles tend to have worse price, range, or features (especially in the automation space).