My theory about car buffs not liking Tesla is that car buffs up until Tesla came about had this huge filter which took out all the people who HATE dirty dirty dirty ICE vehicles, therefore only leaving the ones who prettymuch LOVE ICE vehicles (I'll refer to as ICE-buff or ICE-car-buff). In the future, Tesla-type car buffs, i.e., regular car buffs who don't have to be subject to the ICE-filter and can just get into EVs will form, some of which will be agnostic, and some EV-specific (I'll refer to as car-buff and EV-buff/EV-car-buff, respectively). I think it is entirely likely that as the EV-buff crowd forms that we soon find out that the natural order of things is that there are really more car-buff potentials who would either go into one of the sub-buff groups than we are aware of, and it is even entirely likely that there will come to have been a natural selection of a particular engenderment time more EV-car-buffs than ICE-car-buffs, which is to say, at inception time for each individual. There is a great deal of inertia behind the ICE-buffs, however, so it is likely that in the future the EV-buff crowd never eclipses the ICE-buff crowd, and in my mind, just as likely that they do, all kind of depending on what future types of transportation and societal technical interests are timed and long lasting enough for such a threshold change.
I think a similar thing will happen again with the transition to flying, and other types of better transportation than cars. It already has with computers: lots of computer buffs have replaced who might have been car buffs of the past, and thank god, since ICE-buffs require a lot of suckage which many computer buffs wouldn't have been able to abide.
In a way, the EV-buff crowd will open up a valve for not-so-into-computer computer buff potentials that they haven't been able to tap before because of the ICE filter.
To which I generally look at the entire topic and say, therefore, so what? It doesn't matter. ICE is ugly and EV is great, and later, flying is better than rolling, and other such things. That's all you can take from it before, during, and after all those considerations. (Unless it's your particular business, in which case, have fun marketing to your subgroups, but that doesn't change the natural order of things overall.)
Bring on the EV-buffs and fly-buffs! And the future-buffs! And whatever! Oh, and get rid of those polluting things.
p.s., I intentionally left out the effects of lobbying. Once you correct for that (eliminate its effects), that's what I'm talking about as an underlying interest base. Lobbying, put back in, of course, has its own (short half-life) effect as well, given enough force (money). Lobbying is kind of like gravity: it's a really weak force, but put enough of it in there, and it's one motherf'r.
