Yes.
Focus told this story in the afternoon, and it's a bit amusing. So what their journalists found was that various German E-Car manufacturers.....Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes and BMW....have the cars manufactured and ready to go. The battery packs? Yet to be made, or installed.
This goes to a specialized company in South Korea, which hasn't reached full capacity on assembly yet.
The number in the yard and waiting? Well....45,000.
Porsche having trouble with the E-car (Taycan)? Same story....late on production due to battery quantity.
The Tesla folks? So far, no one says issues on the models sitting in a lot or awaiting batteries. Tesla must not have the problem.
An indicator of things to come? Well, it makes me wonder about the idea of you having spent 50,000 Euro to buy the vehicle, and having driven it for four years, and having arrived one day at a maintenance issue where they say the battery is 'dying'.
Then Martin (the German mechanic) tells you the cost of disposal, purchase of the new battery, and installation......freaking you out, then adding the sad problem of five months before he can get it in his hands from some special plant in South Korea. Huns, your old gas-car mechanic, would have offered a shot of alcohol with bad news....Martin just offers an espresso.
You gaze at the car....still in great shape, and fantastic quality at four years....but a battery that will only get you 100 km (decreasing daily on the charge), and the waiting time of months before another battery can be procured. Do you keep the stupid car or dump it? With gas or diesel cars, it was real easy to make this 'dump' decision, but with an E-car? I'm not so sure.
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