I believe Tesla is systematically leveraging Parkinson's law.
"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
Wikipedia have a wonderful set of corollaries:
Work complicates to fill the available time.
The first-referenced meaning of the law has dominated, and sprouted several corollaries, the best known being the Stock–Sanford corollary to Parkinson's law:
If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.[5]
Other corollaries include Horstman's corollary to Parkinson's law:
Work contracts to fit in the time we give it.[6]
the Asimov corollary to Parkinson's law:
In ten hours a day you have time to fall twice as far behind your commitments as in five hours a day.[7]
as well as corollaries relating to computers, such as:
Data expands to fill the space available for storage.[8]
They are setting extreme goals but with a real path to accomplish them based on real technology and expertise. They have some of the best minds in the world working and wanting to work at Tesla. They also have a grueling work discipline. They might be called Tesla but they follow Edison's rules for invention, inspiration, and perspiration.
I believe that if this model was applied at all levels, international, national, local and personal we can still save our selves from climate change and have a better life for most of humanity. There is still some time for most.
This is also the reason why treating climate change as a problem for 2100 or 2050 might be the most tragic mistake in the history of risk assessment. If we expand the deadlines beyond our lifespans, no work will be done.