> Corvette can't admit to aspirations of a Pure EV this decade (thanks, politics)
I wouldn't attribute it to politics, but rather, the fact that the Venn Diagram of performance car enthusiasts and people willing to buy an EV are basically two entirely separate circles. When you consider cars that have a very big loyalty to the brand, like Corvette does, it gets even worse.
I personally would LOVE to buy a Corvette EV convertible. But I don't have my hopes up of it ever happening. The demand just isn't there.
There's a reasonable sized overlap there. EVs might not interest the "I love the sound inefficiency as literal sound walls" crowd, but the performance car enthusiasts that love torque curves and min/maxing them will eventually begrudgingly admit that EVs have some very lovely torque curves and many of them even know and salivate that most of those curves are software-defined making min/maxing them a fun videogame to play (possibly hazardously while driving, though that's part of the sport of Formula E) rather than buying and installing expensive aftermarket parts.
Brand loyalty I'll give you in that I have heard a lot of "the day Corvette makes an EV is the day Corvette is dead to me" hyper-masculine statements, but hyper-masculinity is political. (So is hyper-partisanship in many cases.)