My understanding is that there is a "funding" platform planned that will utilize teslacoin as the method of payment.  The preferred focus and theme of those being funded will include "alternative power industry" inventions and the like.  So far, Teslacoin is successful in energy efficiency by only beginning with Proof of Work (like bitcoin) but has been shifted to Proof of Stake (for now, which doesn't require people to compete with computing power and therefor waste energy, while still maintaining the network).  Subsequently, I'm not sure it has yet to be decided on how we determine who has created the next block (after all teslacoin have been mined).