content: Your comment is somewhat nonsensical. They, the company themselves, receive no federal subsidies. The only thing there is is a $7,500 tax credit for consumers of the first 200k units of a model. Since the Model 3 had that many preorders in the first day, the company is operating/selling subsidy free and doing better than ever. By contrast the federal government gave most of Tesla's established competitors $80 billion in a massive bailout to try to keep them in business. A lot of the propaganda against Musk's companies are coming from his competitors and they are projecting as hard as Hillary was.  I'm sure consumers are happy for those tax rebates, but the vehicles themselves are already rocking. The Model 3 goes for $35k (with 0 incentives/subsidies) with much lower maintenance than a conventional vehicle (no combustion, no gears, etc) and literally free 'gas'. Really, you don't even need to use your own electric. Tesla has supercharger stations everywhere where you can 'fill her up' in a matter of minutes for $0. That $35k cost is still out of reach of a lot of people, but factor in the longterm ownership costs/perks and it's cheaper than most vehicles than they can afford. Quite a shame, but in any case, electric is a rapidly improving technology. The price is going down at the same time performance is going up. And in a few years we should start seeing used models available for resell enabling more people to get in on them.