Tesla isn't transformative, unless you pretend the Prius never existed. Tesla exists because Toyota created the market for green cars with the Prius line. The P

Tesla isn't transformative, unless you pretend the Prius never existed. Tesla exists because Toyota created the market for green cars with the Prius line. The Prius led to the CA and US green car incentives, which kept Tesla afloat during its many failures (and Tesla still relies on this incentive to achieve profitability; they would have had a quarterly loss earlier this year but for the incentive payments they got from other automakers).