[Alberta's Child]

Every automotive component you listed there is manufactured by a company that hires an army of lobbyists to push governments to mandate them in cars.

It’s a natural feature of a fascist government-corporate system in the Industrial Age. Our economy would collapse if people aren’t forced to buy sh!t they don’t need.

[bert]

Meanwhile, from less than scratch, Elon Musk has created a team that has rethought and redesigned both a car and the totally new production process that is going to destroy the legacy manufacturers....... except possibly Toyota.

Tesla is keeping auto execs and UAW scum awake nights

[mewzilla]

Depending on how much money auto manufacturers make from fleet sales to the public and corporate sectors, Big Auto might not give a crap about the average joe consumer market for cars going south.