Car companies have plenty of know-how to predict the future of their field of technology on a 10-15yr timeline. They're perfectly capable of calling obvious bl

Car companies have plenty of know-how to predict the future of their field of technology on a 10-15yr timeline. They're perfectly capable of calling obvious bluffs. While everyone was busy back patting and circle jerking over the 2035 mandates they were investing in new gas engine architectures for commercial vehicles (so like minivans on up to medium duty trucks) because they looked at the state of diesel tech and emissions rules, looked at the state of gas engine tech and emissions rules and looked at the state of battery tech and decided that the box van of the future was gonna have a gas engine option. At the end of the day you can't legislate a technology jump into existence.