This looks like some VP wants to do a project to build his empire to get promoted, and once he is promoted he will just kill this project.
I don't think they have done much since they gave up on the consumer electronics business, and they have never done much in the appliance business either.
I thought they sold their battery business long ago and they also aren't great with chips, so, why should I trust Sony on EV? I would trust Mitsubishi more even when I don't trust Mitsubishi's cars in the US.
Actually, let me cross that off too, I would trust NIO, BYD, Wu Ling, Tata, Mahindra, Lada, etc long before I would trust an EV from Sony.