Large financial firms that have a vested interest in the Twitter deal failing, or Teslas stock going down or other financial plays on this could be spending money on PR campaigns that create sentiment in their favor. Then other news agencies do their copy/paste “journalism” and you see a bunch of similar articles.

In my opinion for Elon/Tesla to get more credit for climate change they should be lowering prices and cutting into margins to win market share. They would be crushing it if they had more of a mass market car, no silly frills, just a good commuter car with 200-300mi range that wasn’t priced as a luxury car. I don’t know if they have manufacturing capacity to do that yet.

I don’t see Tesla actions that line up with having non-luxury segment products. The luxury segment in the US is 5% of automobile sales, putting a dent in climate change means sellable products in other car segments in mass volume. Nobody is doing that yet.