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why not both?
Although being fair, the other day just out of curiosity I was taking a look at electric cars in my country and almost every single one of them was a needlessly huge SUV.
There were a few exceptions, but I was not expecting that maybe 25 out of 30 cars were in the bigger size.
Bigger size = bigger profit margin. We'd be a lot further towards carbon neutral if cars hadn't grown to ridiculous average sizes while engine efficiency improved a lot.
Because cyber trucks aren't killing people. Trucks made by Ford and Chevy are. Why put effort into solving a problem that doesn't exist yet when there is a real problem right now, and if you solve that one it will also solve the cyber-truck problem.
You're able to do both, you have a massive country with a massive government with a lot of funding.
99% of the time it's not one or the other, and your argument literally works the same if they handle the dystopian car first.
They haven't even been on sale for two weeks and those sales have been limited. Maybe give it the well over a century that Ford and Chevy have had before making that claim.