Yup. The capitalist system worked fine for Tesla, though — ha ha — they were actually boosted by the [removed] system as well. They were part of the government subsidies for solar and electric car makers. I read a report somewhere that the program made a profit in the end, not unlike TARP. (Is TARP right? There are too many acronyms.) I've given up on being ideologically pure... it doesn't work. Theories of economics are just theories of economics. If any could be proven, it wouldn't be economics, it would be physics, and there would still be people saying, “It's not really proven, just supported by evidence under these particular conditions.”
Anyway... point is... there's a growing market for electric cars. Like I said, though, evidence is that the market is only where electric makes sense: extremely fast cars (does any Tesla fear being outrun by a 5.7 Hemi Challenger?), commercial delivery vehicles, and possibly other commercial-use cases.
The vast market of daily drivers will still be far more economically served by regular gasoline vehicles and, more so, by hybrid-electrics. If I wasn't wedded to manual transmissions, hybrids would be my best bet. The added cost isn't too high for most of them, and the benefit is quite large in traffic — and traffic is where most people use most of their fuel, even if most of their actual driving is highway. (Because of the way things work, which is distorted by our using mpg instead of gallons/mile... or, if we wanted to be sensible, ounces/mile? or even better, ml/km).