This is why we need Tesla to keep pushing carmakers forward. The majority of them seem either clueless about building long-range EVs, or they don't care enough

This is why we need Tesla to keep pushing carmakers forward. The majority of them seem either clueless about building long-range EVs, or they don't care enough to make them "great". So they don't bother to create a new EV platform from scratch, but just re-purpose their ICE cars (limiting them in total range and efficiency), or do stuff like supporting only lower-power fast chargers, or cut corners on the type of batteries they use, which degrade fast, or don't properly protect them, and so on. Plus, they have an incentive to drag their feet with EV progress. The incentive is not having to suffer dramatic changes within how their products are made and what type of people they need to hire or fire, and so on. It's the same incentive that kept Nokia and Blackberry from not just starting to build touchscreen phones, but committing to making great ones and actually transitioning the whole company to them. Who here can say that most car companies are currently ready to transition their whole companies to making EVs? I don't think any major car company actually thinks like that right now, or if they do their plans read more like "We'll get started on becoming an EV company 15 years from now".