Does (or does not) he get the credit for committing the fraud that kept Tesla in business long enough to popularize* electric cars that there are other companies at which to build them?

Aforementioned fraud:

(When searching, found apparently jurors in 2023 disagreed with my assessment, so please take with grain of salt.)

*I say “popularize” given:

Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by [not Elon! but] Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors.