Road vehicles account for 5% of global CO2 emissions.
That's not a tiny fraction IMO. It's not huge, but road transportation alone (not counting shipping) account for 5X as much CO2 aviation.
I mean cars are very visible, so any movement there helps with the public image that things can change.
But he still was only one player in a comparitivly small segment, when green technology is so much bigger than just "cars". And "green cars" was and is much more than just "Tesla".
And such is the case here. But Tesla is not just going after cars. They’re going after the whole energy production/transportation complex, which really is the biggest single contributor to greenhouse gases.
It just so happens that cars was the weak point that could be most easily attacked, and Tesla went for it. But there is much more on the table than just cars.
There is. And I do consider Tesla to be a driving force for necessary revolutionary change.
I just do not agree, that they are the sole reason we had the change and momentum we are witnessing.
Before Tesla, "green cars" were basically hybrids like the Prius. Tesla legitimized purely electric cars as an actual alternative.