Comment by hagbard_c

Because Musk->Tesla and Musk == bad according to the desired narrative to which a large fraction of the chattering classes adhere. While other car companies are generically bad (i.e. 'big company', 'climate', 'capitalism' etc.) Tesla is double-plus ungood and as such "we've always been at war with Tesla". If Musk ever decides to flip to the other side that'd quickly change and "we'd never have been at war with Tesla".