You're point is very fair Peter.
It's easy to blame the car vendors for foisting the battery stuff on us but they were given a fire alarm to do it by the legislators.
Those timescales to develop a full new product result in partially baked 1st Gen.
There must be people at VW/Audi and all the others tearing their hair out after the reversing on the dead by date etc etc etc.
When all this stuff comes out in 10 years it is going to be very interesting.
