Electric Vehicle Production Curve

Alex C continues:

The writers of this article obviously have no experience in what it takes to design, develop, manufacture, and market a new vehicle – especially with new technology. One error and the OEM has one vehicle on the road that caused harm to a human and its business is over.

You’re 100% correct that the OEMs need to have a carefully implemented strategy that calls for limited real-world use for the first generation, to identify and rectify issues that were invisible up to that point. And safety, of course, is only one category of such issues. Though this does not explain why we have no EVs on the road more than a century after the invention of the automobile (punctuated by the treachery of the late 1990s), it does explain why we cannot expect millions on EVs a couple of years after the decision and commitment to go forward in that direction.