“But, remember, these decisions are forced on manufacturers by stupid government.”
But they are not mandated yet. And because of the current trend to reject EVs we already know, and THEY already know that this is going to fail. And they also know that the government will bail them out if they fail.
Oh yes, they are mandated!
There is something called CAFE, Corporate average fuel efficiency.
Passed during the Carter era of fuel shortages.
Basically forcing American car manufacturers to be more fuel efficient.
Since then, the CAFE was raised regularly, forcing manufacturers to abandon V8, now even V6, and eventually get rid of gas altogether.
Limits set by Obama and Biden are impossible to achieve without EV.
Trump cut it down to more reasonable levels, but Biden made it even worse.
To achieve it, car manufacturers have to pay Tesla to include some of Tesla’s in their lineup (sort of).
That’s and only that way Tesla makes money! (with high Tesla prices, unbelievably, Tesla still basically looses money on their cars, but make profits due to these payments)
Now, when everybody makes some EV’s, Tesla profits plummeted!