> Tesla has singlehandedly pushed the entire auto industry towards electric vehicles.

I would say they led the industry by 2-3 years because of capabilities of making losses (actually not, Chevy bolt came before model 3).

What made electric cars possible is cheap batteries, otherwise they'd have built model3 right out the gate. And Tesla didn't make batteries cheap, consumer electronics did. Tesla doesn't even make battery cells, they buy them from panasonic