To be fair, there's still a lot of metal-bending (or carbon fiber forming, which the old dinosaurs learned quickly enough) going on when you make an EV. After a

To be fair, there's still a lot of metal-bending (or carbon fiber forming, which the old dinosaurs learned quickly enough) going on when you make an EV. After all, you're still trying to move two tons of sprung mass over a bumpy surface as smoothly as possible, without any of the thousands of individual parts rattling or letting in water. The Germans pretty much dropped the ball on software and UX from the very beginning. But they're still decent enough at bending metal around batteries and electric motors, and that seems to be enough for huge profits.