> The Biden government didn't invite Tesla to an official EV summit where Biden declared GM's Mary Barra as the pioneer of EVs when GM sold 28 EVs that quarter and Tesla sold 200K+.
The problem with that is while it triggered Musk, I don't know that it actually accomplished anything useful. Did it affect Musk financially? Or his reputation? Unless there's an impact that I'm aware of, I would classify the act as toothless or, more euphemistically, "not as effective as it could be".
> I don't know that it actually accomplished anything useful
It was a form of kickback to their big donor, the UAW, for a long time they were planning to exclude Tesla from EV subsidies and gave up on that plan only at the last minute.
Then the govt came in with bags of money to try and neutralize the advantage of Tesla's supercharger network by building a bigger network with taxpayer funds. So that the supercharger network wouldn't be a competitive advantage over the UAW car companies who neglected building charging stations and EVs despite billions in profit every year.
Tesla got a lot of that money. Many wanted to only give the money to union facilities, but because the Biden government was functional they dropped the stupid parts of their plans.
Tesla didn't get that money, people who bought EVs got an paid directly by the govt on them and for some reason picked Tesla at a higher rate than other car companies.
The problem with that is while it triggered Musk, I don't know that it actually accomplished anything useful. Did it affect Musk financially? Or his reputation? Unless there's an impact that I'm aware of, I would classify the act as toothless or, more euphemistically, "not as effective as it could be".