True, but it's not just enough to prove the market and put in the effort to drive down the cost of batteries. Tesla gets paid credits from automakers who will not build EVs, but someone had to build and sell cars to be eligible for these credits, which is putting financial pain on legacy automakers [1]. This is important, otherwise these automakers would just cruise making combustion vehicles that further contribute to climate change.
A former Tesla board member said about ZEV credits: "Tesla is eating the competitors' lunch and having them pay for it, that's a pretty cool trick" [2]
