1 hour ago, balthazar said:

Well, we've obviously seen where the Pure EV company Tesla ended up / their product quality.

I do not expect the existing OEMs to follow the Blustery hot air of Tesla and their poor quality. Tesla does build a good Power Train, it is everything else that Tesla is lacking in.

I was responding to your specific of "pure EV companies", not existing OEMs.
None of those near-future EV Co's are OEMS... yet.
Besides, a company cannot exist long & prosper on 'crappy everything else but solid powertrains'.

7 minutes ago, balthazar said:

I was responding to your specific of "pure EV companies", not existing OEMs.
None of those near-future EV Co's are OEMS... yet.
Besides, a company cannot exist long & prosper on 'crappy everything else but solid powertrains'.

There were a lot of GM cars that had solid powertrains and mediocre a lot of other things, not necessarily crappy.  I am thinking of GM sedans with the 3800 series engines and spartan interiors prior to the black tie interiors starting in 2005.  Arguably Ford had the same thing with their V6 engines and a lot of mediocre interiors prior to 2010.

Much is mediocre without the filter of time.
We had a 3800 Intrique here, it was a very nice vehicle, well designed. But that's a few tiers above Chevy/Ford.