It's likely market positioning factors. A big part of Tesla's success was making electric vehicles that were covetable, rather than being obvious "we made this

It's likely market positioning factors. A big part of Tesla's success was making electric vehicles that were covetable, rather than being obvious "we made this for compliance reasons or to get a government contract" products. This means targeting a luxury market segment. The way they chose to wow luxury consumers was with high performance and a lot of technological gimmickry.