"I am really getting tired having to verify your figures"
Then work on verifying your own; you've gotten more than a few things wrong where Tesla is concerned.
And how did we suddenly get to 300,000 DIRECT jobs wrt GM, when just a few posts ago, it was 216,000? I can accept a bit of rounding but that's an error of ~30% :-)
I hadn't given much thought to the bailout stuff in several years but I'm not convinced that letting Big Auto save themselves - or die - would have been the catastrophe that the fearmongers were screaming about.
It's not as if all the cars & trucks were going to stop working overnight and the parts manufacturers would still have lots of work. And there were other car companies that needed far less help or none at all.
The people who really needed to be bailed out were homeowners.
Economy of scale only goes so far since there's such great variety in automobiles. And it's not as if the automakers are making all the parts themselves.
I understand tax incentives but to give it to a behemoth that too ponderous to change seems like a waste when you have the great infallible hand of the free market to guide these paladins of enterprise.
And when California's CARB threw the ZEV mandate rules at them, GM & Toyota came up with the EV-1 and the RAV4 EV pretty damn quick, no government money required.
Foreign government direct financial support for alternative EVs may be a question but from what I'm able to find about Nissan & Toyota, the likely answer is NO.
And I can't believe that Chrysler got bailed out again - just let them DIE.