Agreed, and it may be that swapping out a battery or engine is easy but I don’t want my brand new car in the shop 3-4x a year because my car just stopped workin

Agreed, and it may be that swapping out a battery or engine is easy but I don’t want my brand new car in the shop 3-4x a year because my car just stopped working at the grocery store. Especially when wait times for servicing can be protracted. It doesn’t matter if the car runs on hopes and dreams, it needs to be reliable.