Imagine if you made the world’s best horse carriages in about 1910. Early model “horseless carriages” were unreliable, noisy, smelling and the road and fuel infrastructure was not well built out for many years. Horse owners probably felt pretty smug trotting by a Model T owner stuck in the mud or out of gas. They probably yelled “get a horse” as they trotted by.

Fossil fuels and internal combustion engines have had a really long run, but this is coming to an end. So the oil companies and conventional automotive groups who don’t have a compelling EV strategy are desperately trying to delay the transition to milk a few more years of profits out of consumers. So every customer that they manage to convince that EVs are unreliable, or don’t have enough range, or are too expensive, or lack infrastructure, or produce more pollution than conventional cars, etc. is another potential sale of their legacy, sunset products.

BTW - oil will never go away - we need petroleum products to produce most of our plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, etc. But as a transport fuel, it is a sunset industry.