The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

“As automakers were profit maximizing during the supply chain crisis era, you are going to prioritize the bigger vehicles, the more expensive vehicles with their higher margins,” Tyson Jominy, vice president of data and analytics at J.D. Power, told me. “Now we just don’t have” these cheaper models.

We have a winner.

There's a bunch of free riders in the form of shareholders artificially driving up the price of goods.

Isn't this a natural consequence of capitalism in entrenched industries?