There’s probably a lot of growing pains. A whole ton of automakers are putting out their first generation models and some of them are going to miss things and fuck it up.

Like botching the 12v battery upkeep system.

Yeah conventional automatic transmissions are clockwork nightmares, a pair of electric motors and a single-speed overdrive gear are way simpler.

Honda’s system is basically like someone shrunk a diesel-electric train transmission and replaced the resistor bank with a battery.