Range is freedom. The car goes 462 miles on a charge because the driver should not have to think about the charge. A vehicle that asks the driver to plan around it is not a vehicle. It is an appliance.
Software is the substrate. The car gets faster, quieter, longer-ranged over time. Updates are the engineering continuing after delivery. The car the owner wakes up to in year three is not the car the owner bought.
The electric vehicle is a position. To build one well is to say that the next century of personal transport will be cleaner, quieter, and more honest than the last. Anode is that position made physical.