"real" car companies are not without their own scandals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_contro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Fuel_system_fires,_...

I don’t see anything in there about tents, though.

Okay then, what's the problem with tents ?

By your analogy, the Bigelow iss module is a tent... Yet it went and survived if f... space !

Hmm. Didn’t some _real_ car companies need bail-outs from the US government?

That has nothing to do with the parent comment, which was about manufacturing processes and planning. The bailouts were the result of overproduction and high labor costs in an unexpectedly shrinking market.

Parent comment doesn't have much to do with anything. Who decides what a 'real' car company does?

You mean like how every U.S. Tesla ever sold has been heavily subsidized with tax rebates? And how they actually got a U.S. Government loan? And how they got further tax credits from Nevada for building the Gigafactory there?

As opposed to oil subsidies that are reported at $4 billion annually with estimates that they're actually somewhere between $10 and $40 billion?

The tax rebates amount to ~$4 billion subsidy for a BEV manufacturer. Maybe we should just eliminate subsidies on both and see what happens.

"Maybe we should just eliminate subsidies on both and see what happens."

I am completely in favor of that proposal.

Weird.. Almost like the majority of other corporations in the US..

You mean like every other EV in the US also? Those are all subsidized to exactly the same amounts yet you don't see them selling like gangbusters...

What you're describing is smart business.

So is lobbying for a bailout from Congress by that criteria.