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@dangillmor

Think about every nut, bolt, switch, bearing in a Tesla. Each part is a new design. Established car companies use an inventory of designs and parts refined over years. They make continual improvements for performance and reliability.

Each part has a statistical chance of failure which is reduced through design iteration. When everything is new overall reliability is dramatically reduced because of the cumulative affect of using all new untested unrefined elements.