I do believe he is the closest thing to Edison we have had in the US in the modern era. I think that's a fair characterization.
Long-term I think TSLA will absolutely be a much, much, larger company with robust, 20/25-percent+ annual growth as far as the eye can see. I held the stock from March 2020-February 2022 and would still be a holder today if not for allocating those proceeds to another position in Feb 22 that I could not turn down. When you make 10X, you consider ringing the register anyway and that's what TSLA did (and then some actually) from March 2020 to Feb. 2022.