LOL @ this^^^. The "mold" was range, and as a transition platform the gas powered charging of the Chevy Volt still makes the most sense.
Number of Teslas sold: 300,000
Number of Prius sold: >6,000,000 (11,000,000 hybrids sold by Toyota).
Tesla founded: 2003
First Toyota hybrid sold: 1997
Average price for Model 3: $50,000
Average price for a chevy bolt: $38,000
And i have no love for Toyota but the idea that Musk-meister completely changed the paradigm of powering cars is flat out wrong. he did a great job in developing a great premium car. GM definitely was the innovator having reduced a bunch of R&D projects to an actual product with a practical battery.
On the topic of advancing technology decades, GM should be the first one mentioned for what they did to create video graphics cards (by way of Evan and Sutherland) and disk drives (by way of IBM).
Or how about what Ford created (in 1979) that powers every modern PET, and CT scanner in the world?