Totally agree Hamwich .... my guess is that cars have been mechanically competent for a long while now .... once they could actually get up hills and had a decent chance of arriving where they were going then selling on mechanical merit became more difficult so they were sold via status/lifestyle considerations ... the market (for new cars) remains the same .... the actual mechanics of the car are just there to produce levels of smoothness acceleration and top speed that are irrelevant to road driving but look good in the brochure .... and EV can deliver those in spades (with the current exception of range) .... the difficulty of getting the punters to buy your box on wheels over your competitors on mechanical merit alone remain the same (with those buyers needing lots of range just taking themselves outside the EV game altogether and buying IC rather than someone else's EV) ... so bloated complexity still rules.
K
