Comment by peebeebee
2 hours ago
Tesla was THE company that started the EV-revolution, while VW was actively manipulating emission data.
I don't like Elon and his politics, but I'm very grateful for Tesla to have shaken up the car industry. Everyone is better for it.
Maybe? For years the highest selling EV was the Leaf.
I agree Tesla kind of increased the desirability of EVs at least in the US, but I'm not convinced it wouldn't have happened anyway.
It's a hard question to answer, because you're talking about a counterfactual.
I feel like there's probably some broader type of cognitive bias at play (where we assume something common wouldn't have been common otherwise, because it is common) but I don't know what the term for it might be.