Since you can’t pay attention:
“The figure compiled by The Times comprises a variety of government incentives, including grants, tax breaks, factory construction, discounted loans and environmental credits that Tesla can sell. It also includes tax credits and rebates to buyers of solar panels and electric cars.”
LA Times of all places. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
And this outlines the rest of it, but you won’t read it. I’m not going to debate the obvious addressed in this article. It’s not innovation. I suppose you support wasting taxpayer dollars to go to Mars as well...
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/cut-elon-musks-government-subsidy-gravy-train-18671
So how much of it was actual money given to Musk et al?
And why aren’t you equally - or justifiably more so - losing your freaking mind over subsidies of gasoline, milk, and other companies/industries receiving orders of magnitude more “subsidies” than this yahoo who is just doing publicity stunts (in the form of a quarter-million semi-luxury cars, dozens of commercial rocket launches including unheard-of dozens of vehicle recoveries, ... at what point are they no longer “publicity stunts”?)?
And have you spent more time screaming at your legislators than you have at strangers about the subjects?