<troll>Ford is selling thousands of F150 EVs a month. How many Cybertrucks has Tesla sold?</troll>
The EU was supposed to vote for the end of the sale of any ICE vehicle by 2035. I don't know where the final vote is but several manufacturers, including Mercedes, already said they'd stop producing ICE before 2035.
It is coming. I'm in the EU and I do see 100% EV cars from the VW group on the road, just as I see 100% EV BMWs. And they're not all stuck on the side road or I'd see them.
I think it's really a bit early to call all these legacy carmakers dead.
What they have been doing is milking their petrol & diesel markets for as long as they possibly can. Why cannibalize your existing market for EVs when you're still selling plenty of the old cars, until you have no other choice?
Once they can't make money off petrol anymore, those companies will very quickly pivot to EVs and are currently more than technically capable of doing so. And they'll say 'thank you very much Elon for educating the public in what it means to be an EV owner, and what infrastructure is needed to support them. We'll take over from here'.
VW Group (VW, Audi, etc.) seems to be moving quite well into EVs, I don't understand how manufacturers with a huge know-how to manufacture ICEs could be taken as "failing quite badly" in a market that's barely 5 years in the mainstream. ICEs are much more complex machines to produce than EVs, battery tech is something that most automakers have gotten into.
I think it's still too early to call shots like that, Tesla is still holding on its almost-first-mover advantage but it isn't a given it will stay that way when the competition increases. And competition has been increasing quite substantially.