To be fair, he did make the area safer. You can argue with his methods, but you can’t deny the results were positive.

They are mechanically simpler because they don’t have hundreds of parts in a combustion engine and an automatic transmission, but their overall complexity is much higher.

You have all of the electrical system out of a modern car(fucking complex) with all of the systems needed to handle the electric motors and batteries.

It is the different between a flip phone and a smartphone. The smartphone isn’t simpler because it doesn’t have as many buttons or a hinge.

Absolutely.

Then there are the Korean manufacturers that sell themselves as great car, but they just look like great car. A 100k warranty is a selling point, not a testament of their reliability.

Electric cars are actually very complex. They monitor a ton of sensors and electrical properties constantly and need to manage everything.

It isn’t just a big motor and a big battery hooked up to a variable resistance switch at the accelerator.