Re: Don't believe it
your argument makes sense except for one seriously critical oversight:
massive government subsidies.
with cash infusion to the companies at hand, even the crappiest electric car with no available infrastructure becomes "viable" for as long as the subsidies continue. Which in the case of Tesla has been a decade of State and Fed, with State still a cash cow providing free "EV Credits" to sell as well as other "alternative vehicle" programs that fill the trough. And that's before the tax breaks and infrastructure benefits provided, and before State and Federal subsidies of the product purchases themselves that technically go to the purchaser, but in fact simply enable more profit thru more sales that would not have occurred without the taxpayer largesse.
Executives, shareholders, and some employees make a lot of money no matter how unsuccessful the vehicle turns out to be in the long run. And that "metric" is how "success" is defined.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
