17.5 million cars were sold in the US last year. GM, for example sold nearly 200k cars in March. Just March. If they went from that to selling 400k cars every 2-3 years, that would be a horrendously precipitous decline in sales with massive layoffs.<p>Not to mention retooling factories. They can&#x27;t just spin around on a dime and start making electric cars instead of gas ones.<p>Oh, and where&#x27;s the charging infrastructure for everyone to drive an electric car? The Tesla stations are great, but they still take 30 minutes or so to fully charge a car. Go look at the throughput at a busy gas station and imagine every one of those people waiting 30 minutes. They&#x27;d basically never get to leave the gas station.