Tesla, in 10 years, made a little money in one quarter, 4 years ago. Tax payers have paid for everything else. Elon keeps moving the Tesla break-even point to the right, now 2019, but he’s missed every single financial and manufacturing target he’s ever made.
If forced to pay-back all tax payer subsidies for Tesla alone, (not counting SpaceX which finally started making money last year, and Sun Power which Tesla bought with tax payer money) it would be around 2030, assuming Tesla starts, or ever, makes money. If you saw his last Shareholders meeting performance, he blamed everybody else for Tesla’s woes. He builds car in Silcon Valley, the most expensive place to do anything in the USA. HQ is in Palo Alto, Ca, median house price of $3.4M. Elon has a long history of talking big and not delivering.
I give SpaceX a TON of credit, they have excellent aerospace engineers. Musk has had very little impact on SpaceX, other than getting 5+ years of tax-payer subsidies, and getting California to give him tax rebates for his factory near LA...