Winning The Electric Car Race Is Just The Beginning Of Elon Musk's Plan For Tesla (tsla)

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images The electric car race has been on since 2010, but it's now essentially over, and Tesla has won: CEO Elon Musk's automaker dominates the EV market But that market remains tiny, at just about 2% of global sales. Musk knows that for Tesla's grand vision to succeed, that share has to grow exponentially. Winning the EV race means that for Tesla, the real work of eliminating the internal-combustion engine has just begun. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The idea that automakers are racing to commercialize electric cars — and that one or some of them will come out on top — has always been flawed.

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