Comment by acdha

There's a big confound between the EVs which make sense for many buyers and the massive, expensive SUVs the manufacturers want to sell because they have such high margins. Tesla’s Cybertruck is a rich man’s toy – not good for real off-roading, tiny cargo volume, etc. – but it soaked up a ton of resources with a very complex design and there just aren’t that many people looking for a truck that expensive regardless of quality. If they’d put the same level of effort into making a sub-$30k car it would have been less of a publicity stunt but there’d be at least an order of magnitude more potential buyers and would have shipped years earlier.