us firm is only a tenth of the worlds biggest car producerlegacy carmakers such as toyota general motors co volkswagen and chryslerowner stellantis are beginning to fight back with plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars which will add to the competition for tech firms such as sonyfor some technology companies the lure of evs has already been dropped outweighed by the risksbagless vacuum cleaner inventor james dyson scrapped his electric car plans in 2018 because of the complexity of putting a vehicle on the roadand panasonic corp sonys fellow japanese consumer tech competitor has also eschewed massmarket evs although automotive components including batteries it makes for tesla cars are now a major sales driverpanasonic is not considering the production of panasonicbranded evs a spokesperson said