You literally just said “it doesnt matter how good they make them.” If they did have a good EV, you’d complain that it was too expensive. If they cut the cost and quality, you’d complain that it wasn’t worth buying. They can’t beat China at this game without using all the same tricks I mentioned in my previous comment. Nobody in the world can do that.

Why do they need a good EV at this very moment? Worldwide, EVs only make up 20% of new car sales. Their hybrids outsell EVs 3 to 1 here in the US. They’re about to release their solid state batteries and manufacture EVs this coming year with double the range of the current technology. They’ve also been exploring additional alternatives such as hydrogen fuel cells. What’s the rush, exactly? How is that “having their heads buried in the sand?”

Are you arguing that they would be better suited to have dumped tens of billions of dollars trying to “keep up with the Jones’s” by developing the same bleeding edge technology in parallel with everyone else? Would they be kings of the automotive world witn something like the Nissan Leaf in their fleet? I seriously doubt it.