Who's we? Must not be in the group that Ford, GM, Tesla, etc are spending 10's of Billions of dollars to produce EV's for. Must be too small of group to stop the reasons for China gaining control of over 50% of Lithium mining and 75% of the world's mega battery factories.
You might be right though, I'm sure it's all done for no profit and no market for EV's in any foreseeable future. They are just throwing billions/trillions $ away because they can I guess. I could go on all day, but it is a worthless debate. "We" better get their act together, "we" is paying big time now and will get worse because they haven't, ignoring the impending issues in the past.
The clouds of War will pass (I hope) at some point in time and when the dust settle's the views (and reality) will become much clearer to "we".