Which smells a bit of "they're essential because they're employing a significant portion of the population".
Well how many hours are they even working? Who the hell is buying $50,000 cars right now?
Maybe not this month, but things will go back to normal and people will want their $50000 cars
Things will not be normal for a long time. This is going to be a severe global recession and thats going to depress auto sales a lot. Also, oil is $24 a barrel, which makes electric cars at even more a disadvantage.
Aren't they still chewing through their backlog?
And that's all the motivation you need. I wish everyone would follow their lead and the defy the quarantine theater - yes, I know the virus is terrible, but we haven't even quite started with the cure and it already looks like it's worse.