agreed, and its both hilarious and sad (and also staggering) that we all here know this, and yet CEOs at places like BMW cant understand it.
they do know it, but, they do not want to do a demolition job to their ICE business (cash cow, ATM, etc, for as long as they’ve existed) ever.
producing EVs of the quality of Tesla’s cars are such a demolition job.
eventually they will not have the option of deferring on such EVs if they want to remain major automakers.
until then, competing with Tesla is about public perception games, not products, because competing on product would implode the only meal ticket they’ve ever known, their ICE business.
we have no shortage of public perception games competing with Tesla.