Tribal knowledge in the car making business is a formidable hurtle. Porsche has had some spectacular failures in recent years and they are not the new kids.
I have to point out ... that the EXPERTS said that about PHONES, too, when Apple was getting into that market. They said it just wasn’t possible to overcome the vast knowledge of those existing companies in the design and manufacture of phones. They were just TOO FAR AHEAD ... LOL ...
When you go back and read those statements from the experts (before the iPhone came out) and you look at the iPhone today, you wonder “How could those experts be so stupid?!”
Whatever Apple is getting into now, it will be the same way!