I tend to think its similar what happened in the 70s, when gasoline got expensive. The US manufacturers were slow to react, and made a few terrible "compliance

I tend to think its similar what happened in the 70s, when gasoline got expensive. The US manufacturers were slow to react, and made a few terrible "compliance" cars (Chevy Chevette, Ford Pinto), but continued to try to milk what had been their bread and butter as long as they could. Meanwhile, European and Japanese imports ate their lunch by delivering cars with good fuel economy that were not objectively awful. I tend to think that GM and Ford haven't fully bought into electric cars, so the experience with those cars tends to be fairly miserable (terrible charging, bad reliability). The interesting thing to me is how far behind the curve the Japanese brands are this time around.