And yet VW is closing EV plants in Germany, and is billions of dollars in debt. Nor can VW, with its current manufacturing process, ever come close to Tesla's efficiencies.

The other automakers are selling some vehicles, but are similarly hampered by the fact that in many cases the EV version of a given product is $10K or $20K more expensive than the ICE version.

Plus everyone else seems bent on selling "luxury" EVs priced out of reach of 99% of the global market.