We had electric cars before Tesla and they worked just fine. With better build quality too.

The ends don’t justify the means. And his ends are dubious at best. He didn’t singlehandedly do anything. The successes of SpaceX and Tesla are mostly do to the hard work of thousands of workers.

Who gathered, organized, and aligned these thousands of workers? Is him being chief of breakthrough innovations merely a coincidence?

> almost single-handedly made electric cars cool

Single-handedly except for, ya know, all the people that actually designed and built the cars at Tesla

Well apparently they didn't do it until he came along so....