Elon Musk is person of the year. What's his Tesla legacy?

Every December, TIME magazine picks an individual or group of people to be the "person of the year." 

This year, TIME picked a guy who equally inspires and infuriates: Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk is a culture-shifting CEO who brought the business of climate solutions into the zeitgeist in surprising – and sometimes weird – ways

He became the wealthiest person in the world partly because he sold his mission to make climate-positive technologies a reality – even when incumbents and skeptical investors never thought it could happen.

But Tesla's history is also filled with failed or missing products – or even outright lies.

This week: a brief history of Tesla. Has it lived up to Musk's original vision of building a sustainable energy company to vanquish fossil fuels?

Guest: Eric Wesoff, Editorial Director at Canary Media. 

The Carbon Copy is a co-production of Post Script Media and Canary Media.

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