"cherry picking parts."

"Conveniently leaves out that virtually every nation on earth offers a rebate." So? Just because every other country wastes money, doesn't mean we have to.

"You can buy a Nissan Leaf for a lot less than that even without rebate." You can, but people don't - of Canada's approx 15 000 EV fleet ⅓ are the high end Model S 

" Fails to mention the sum of subsidies given to oil over the last two decades and how much that would dwarf EV subsidies." Feel free to detail those subsidies and their value, by year.

The new Tesla will be successful, and heavily subsidized, but it hasn't arrived yet, so doesn't change the arithmetic - these are big subsidies to Yuppies.