[vvanders]

The problem is going to be the dealers.

With the limited maintenance, regular servicing and less things to break where dealers have historically made their margins. EVs are a threat in this regard and you've already seen this play out with the Bolt/Volt to a degree.

Heck, they wanted ~$300 to run a DPF regen on our truck when it went into limp mode(yay for open-ish OBD protocols so we could do it ourself).

I just don't see them wanting to sell them and without a channel it doesn't matter how good of a product you make.