I hope China continues to subsidize the fuck out of the cars and I hope the world starts buying them

You kinda have to hope they do. What happens when all the other manufactures are gone and Chinese companies start charging what the cars actually cost, or more? That's what amazon did. Now everybody with a baby is forked.

Don’t look now, but that ship has sailed. They are the global leaders in that tech.

I said exactly as much. Their takeover of solar and batteries are more or less done. Vehicles are next. I'm sure they have other markets planed after that.

inferior to swaddling your baby in poison ivy leaves.

Fun fact: I'm not allergic to poison ivy. It was a pretty cool super power growing up.