If Tesla cared about their mission, they wouldn’t sell pollution indulgences. They would sit on their emissions credits to force the auto industry to transition to EVs that much more quickly. Yet they sell them in order to stall the EV programs of their competitors.
And, therefore, when you buy a Tesla you’re just enabling an extra polluting SUV to be sold to someone else. Because they sell pollution rights your purchase has created for them, there is no net environmental benefit to buying one.
Why not? It makes them money. Who has ever claimed that TSLA cared about anything else but making money?
"the overarching purpose of Tesla Motors (and the reason I am funding the company) is to help expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy, which I believe to be the primary, but not exclusive, sustainable solution." (2006)
'“The acceleration of sustainable energy is absolutely fundamental, because this is the next potential risk for humanity,” Musk said. “So obviously, that is, by far and away, the most important thing.”
But autonomous cars have the potential to “save millions of lives,” according to Musk, so that is also critical, he said.' (2019)