It's what Hybrids were some years back: By driving a Tesla you show you're much better than those little people that are driving gas powered planet destroying vehicles and you want everyone to know that.
By driving a (any model/any brand) you show you can afford it, regardless of your financial position. Hybrids have proven themselves to save gas, money and will boost the power and performance of any car it is designed into. Every model car Lexus sells in both gas and hybrid is now faster and more powerful as a hybrid. It's worth the price difference to get the extra power. Tesla has already proven it can make one of the fastest production cars made. If you look at it from a muscle car point of view, who wouldn't want a faster car that gets great gas mileage? Oh, that's right...those "little people". Go be a jealous, liberal, class warfare troll somewhere else. If you meant to insult the "Hey look at me!" types, you missed by a mile. Hybrids are here to stay, quit being envious of people with nice cars.