> And with the amount of government subsidy they have already received, they should be the last ones complaining about regulation. You mean the same subsidies

> And with the amount of government subsidy they have already received, they should be the last ones complaining about regulation. You mean the same subsidies which currently give Tesla's GM-come-lately competitors a $10k pricing advantage on new car purchases? Maybe that's the solution. Every time a competing car is sold, Tesla gets the subsidy instead of the maker. Then Tesla can use it to continue building out the supercharger network which everyone benefits from. GM, Ford, VW, Toyota... these are multi-billion dollar companies, several of which have received massive subsidies from the US government themselves. Forcing Tesla to subsidize their myopic competitors as sort of perverted corporate tort in the US is crap.