There are Priuses everywhere, so you can hardly say that only Tesla innovates.

"They're everywhere" doesn't mean they innovate, it means they're cheap and good enough.

The Prius has been incremental for the last 20 years.

> "They're everywhere" doesn't mean they innovate, it means they're cheap and good enough.

I'd argue that in the case of the Prius it means that they were a successful innovation.

And the original claim was 35 years, not 20 :)

Electric cars for rich people is innovation?

Yes, because previously there were no good electric cars, not even for rich people.

Good as in competitive with (or superior to) ICE cars.

That reliability survey is flawed, it includes issues that are fixed as a condition for delivery. Tesla owner satisfaction is one of the highest in the industry.

I have no reason to distrust Consumer Reports. Reported owner satisfaction most likely has a high degree of sunk cost fallacy built in.

Wouldn't that be a consistent factor across cars at a certain price point, though? You could reasonably compare Model 3 owner satisfaction to Lexus IS250 owner satisfaction, for example.