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> Just look at our car industries and their non-response to Tesla over all the years

"Non-response". Renault had electric vehicles on the market in 2012 (Zoe), same year as the Tesla Model S. The BMW i3 came out in 2013. Different focus, slightly slower research for some groups to get a common platform (e.g. VW), but it's not like there was absolutely nothing and it took 10 years for European car manufacturers to realise EVs can work.

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Tbf, i was working at one at the time. Finding the space in the chassis for the battery and adapting it and suspension to the weight of an EV meant they had to develop platforms for EV nearly from scratch.

Without any idea of the market demand. At the current cost of developing new Platforms (a few billions), you could understand being risk adverse. Low sales would have killed the whole companies.

Especially for companies such as Renault who could share some R&D costs with Nissan, but are still quite small and a wrong bet can bankrupt them.

Considering what happened when Renault announced massive layoffs, I'd not be too happy jeopardising the company either.

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