Friend was in the local Ford dealer in the UK getting his daughters Mustang serviced, it had taken them 8 weeks to get a service slot and when he asked the Service Manager why he said 30% of his workshop is booked up replacing batteries in Mach Es nearly all on warranty.
in fairness manufacturers often have to accept teething problems with new technology, to get to a point where things start to work well, and it all makes money, it part and parcel of new technology development. Dyson with the bagless vacuum cleaner had the worst reliability of any cleaner at first but just kept on top of it and worked the marketing until they sorted it all out. It does look like the Germans have done their home work on batteries a bit better than Ford in this instance. It was not that long ago (70's?) that new ICE cars would not start, had pitiful fuel consumption, caught fire, exploded in accidents and often rusted within a few years, these things cost the manufacturers until they sorted it out. EV's are no different, its not the fact it's an EV that's causing these issues its that fact that the technology is new to the manufacturer.
