Are you honestly saying that with the money at stake big oil primarily (with support of some in big auto) wouldn't stoop to strategically block progress on battery tech through the use of patents and other measures? No? That they all wouldn't be happier if Tesla wouldn't sod right off.
It's not like other big business doesn't use their clout in inventive ways to preserve legacy business models against the public interest. If I was running the lobby/strategy group for big oil and drawing up a game plan I know Tesla would be somewhere high on the list as both a genuine threat and a catalyst for others. "
I'm saying you are seeing bogeymen where none exist.
And the reason I say that is because Tesla is not the only entity in existence that is designing, innovating and developing the next generation of vehicular transport. Several other players around the world are rapidly playing catch-up in this space (which is only serving to compound the problem for Teva).
And I think that it is naive to think that there is some entities with interests that are opposed to the adoption of EV's will that strategically inept as to assume that they would have the competitive threat sorted if they were to kneecap Tesla.
For there are numerous other participants moving onto the scene, and unless "big oil, old auto", et al, plan to somehow bring all the world's EV producers to nought by some or other nefarious means, it is totally implausible that they will try to do it with just Tesla.
Big oil + old auto have had zero influence in bringing about Tesla's financial challenges and reputational contamination in terms of governance attitudes that fall way below acceptable practices; the cause of those issues lie exclusively with the company's own managers.
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