> To auto industry veterans, the company’s jaw-dropping achievement isn’t popularizing electric cars. That may have been inevitable as the consequences of climate change began to hit Americans.

I find this so fascinating. I think there comes a point where an achievement is so monumental, that people stop comprehending it as a person's achievement and instead view it as a historical event. Then the achievement becomes "inevitable", because it was the march of history pushing the achievement forward.

Being the CEO of a successful car company is an achievement. But revolutionizing the car industry itself is "inevitable".