I don’t think so, GM made billions from the Nazi war machine then made even more at home when the US woke up it transferred all of its production capacity to support the war effort and was paid well for it for years still after the war has ended.
I’m simply not seeing the same opportunity for Tesla to make the analogy truly work.
it's also important to note that GM managed to make money because of it's production capacity not because of it's technology.
So this is essentially the complete opposite of Tesla if you fully buy in into their technological superiority which I'm not entirely sure is actually there, production is their main problem.
Gigafactory or not there are many more players that simply dwarf them in this capacity, GM was also a huge company by the 1930's with world wide logistical channels, production facilities and subsidiaries which is exactly what allowed it to take advantage of the war, it helped build the Nazi war machine through Opel, it supplied the Brits through Vauxhall and then it supplied Uncle Sam.
If i'll have to imagine some near future ecological disaster that forces us to push even more for solar and energy storage I don't see SolarCity or Tesla I see billions of panels and batteries produced by China and maybe India if it wakes up and decides to stop being just the world's call center and chemist.
