And shouldn’t Tesla’s costumers that should be collecting that money?
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They just do. Lawmakers have come up with a scheme where automakers are assigned a fixed quota of carbon credits, to cover the CO2 emissions from the cars they make. This is to encourage them to reduce CO2 emissions and to move to EV’s more quickly.
Tesla doesn’t have a use for these, and instead sells them to traditional automakers who need more than their assigned quota because they sell *a lot* of traditional cars and thus cause a lot of CO2 emissions.
This means that traditional carmakers are allowed to emit more CO2 as long as they’re willing to pay to buy other companies’ carbon credits. It also means that the actual CO2 savings of buying a Tesla is effectively negated because it just allows someone else’s Ford or VW or Toyota to emit more CO2 on your behalf.
As for who should get the money? The company is selling a good to other companies. The other company pays them for that. I’m not sure why you would expect their customers to be involved.
When Microsoft sells Office licenses to another company their customers don’t get the money either.
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