I mean based on popular understanding, they KNEW they should be figuring out electric cars (and have been!) but: 1- Oil companies pressured the industry/govern

I mean based on popular understanding, they KNEW they should be figuring out electric cars (and have been!) but: 1- Oil companies pressured the industry/government to keep supporting their platform 2- Most car companies didn't consider themselves battery companies, which Tesla obviously is. They sell the product "cars" not so much the underlying technologies that make them function. Thinking of Tesla as a car company and not a battery/energy company is a misunderstanding of where they spend their energy. It's like thinking Google is a search engine and not an adverting/information brokerage company.