Good! Tesla has pushed the big car companies to do what they could have done decades ago - build and distribute fully electric cars that are the same or better

Good! Tesla has pushed the big car companies to do what they could have done decades ago - build and distribute fully electric cars that are the same or better quality than non-electric cars. And, your questionable view that profitability for a company in it's growth phase defines success non-withstanding, they're pretty quickly eating their lunch at it too. They're going to continue to be forced to compete with Tesla because Tesla builds amazing cars that people want to buy. When they're able to sell them more places and build them at new price points (already happening), it's going to be fun to watch. However, that doesn't mean the big car companies won't make cars that are just as good - the point is that now they HAVE to and that's good. Same with self-driving cars.