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Note that the Nissan leaf model 2 is still air cooled and battery capacity hasn't shown any of the problems of the early batteries.

I still think you're overblowing the complexity here. I'm not saying there's no R&D, of course not, I'm saying they should have gotten the bandwagon in the early days when the subsidies were higher. But I am saying that it's not rocket science, it's just a battery, some coolant and an electric motor. It's far, far, far less complicated than an internal combustion engine. You sound like you swallowed some marketing whole.

I'm very skeptical of your claim that you should run the regular electronics in an EV off the main battery rather than the 12V battery. A 12V battery has power output in the hundreds of watts, whereas the main battery has power output in the hundreds of kilowatts. I don't know how many electrical components there are where you can just multiply the power by 500 or 1000 without frying them, but I'm willing to bet it's not the indicators or the stereo! Heating/aircon is the only application that I can conceive of using even a single kw of power, let alone hundreds of kilowatts.

Anyway, the point still stands, Ford spent way too long denying EVs are here to stay and so they're falling at it. I had a Ford once, it was a decent family car, but my EV is far, far more fun to drive than any other vehicle I've driven including a lovely performance petrol car. I won't go back.

By the way, Elon is an awful human being and I think you'd have to pay me thousands annually to convince me to drive a Tesla, and tens of billions to drive a cybertruck. I'd spend most of the billions on humanitarian charities and supporting progressive candidates in elections and campaigning against big fat vehicles and for light rail and very frequent buses.