Considering the history of the auto industry, it is more likely that the big three will just fail period. There are already electric car companies popping up all over. One is building a plant in my county. They can make the product much cheaper and more efficiently than Detroit, and since they can probably afford to exist on relatively low sales, Big Auto won’t be able to compete. Let’s face it, for alternative fuels to work, gas stations all need the equipment to fill or charge these new cars. Until that happens you won’t have massive sales without a mandate, and tax incentives for stations owners to upgrade.
The failure of the biggest and best funded of those startups, Tesla motors, says you’re wrong.