How much in subsidies did he get from California?
Basically $180 million to make this commercial and a couple scrapped demo stations:
Nobody likes taxes and if you can either avoid them or recoup them through subsidies it makes you "smart."
For the factories, maybe.
What about the rebate to car purchasers for many years, making California Tesla's biggest market? That is substantial.
Now that he's not there other willing people will have the chance to apply to those subsidies aware of the new regulations and the change in direction the state is taking.