That may have been the way it initially looked, but after Edison's founders had meetings with politicians and department heads, they have got some of those roadblocks removed and are well on their way to dealing with the rest.
Most of those regulations weren't intentionally preventing what Edison is doing, but rather had been created without predicting and accommodating the type of hybrid EV that Edison is making.
It was more a "fell through the cracks" issue and not the government actively standing in their way.
The speed that the regulatory changes have happened is surprisingly fast compared to how government usually moves.
they can get filthy rich, but not at an expense of people getting low quality product, low quality of life, and in the process messing up the environment too
No they can't. Those are mutually exclusive.
Someone becoming "filthy rich" is requires the rest of the people getting low quality product, low quality of life, and messing up the environment.
Of the ones you suggested, that's the one I like.