Here’s the thing you’re missing:

Ford isn’t being forced to make “shit no one will buy”. The EPA regulations have a MPG target for each vehicle based on its size. Ford could sell 100% F-150s, and as long as those trucks got the mpg requirement for a vehicle its size, they’d be fine. Gone are the days when they’d have…

No one could sell 400,000 electric cars in a few weeks. No demand at all

If it wasn’t for the government then the US Auto industry would’ve gone out of business 7 years ago, if not decades sooner.