This required a huge amount of redesign and engineering, why didn’t they design it to have an interchangeable battery? I know very little about the technical aspects of batteries and electric cars so maybe I’m underestimating the difficulty of designing interchangeable batteries for electric cars but it seems like electric race cars are a good place to develop the tech and would give them a better chance of competing with gas powered racing. In addition to that it seems like interchangeable batteries in consumer cars would solve a lot of the issues people have with electric cars.