During the Obama administration, all American manufacturers seemed to agree that they need to introduce some kind of electrification in their range of vehicles - at least on a declarative level. It turns out that was not out of conviction, but simply because the rules told them so.
Nobody's naive enough to believe that a hugely profitable business like that of making cars would willingly start investing in alternative propulsion systems as long as there was still plenty of fossil fuel to go around. That would take billions of dollars, and that's billions of dollars out of the pockets of those who control these companies.
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