No one even mentioned a big story...that he just opened up the patents to Tesla's technology. He wants everyone else to start catching up because he's trying to change the culture which is dependent on antiquated internal combustion tech.
The analogy he makes (in an interview with Chris Hayes I just saw) is that if there's a bunch of teams bailing out a sinking ship, and you're team is doing great because of your bucket technology, it won't matter much in the end if when the ships sinks because you didn't share the tech.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...patent-reform/
the guy is just not about making money.