Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that what they’ve done isn’t commendable - they’re (supposedly; remember, we’ve seen GM do this once before in the past) bringing a practical EV to traditional consumers. I’m using Tesla to question how they’ve managed to produce it with a 40-mile range when a relatively new company without the buying leverage and R&D facilities of GM managed to accomplish much greater.
It’s a step forward in the sense that we’re reducing our need for fossil fuel, but a step backwards in the sense that it’s going to cause us to settle for using X gallons of fossil fuel instead of using 0 gallons of fossil fuel.