No problem if that is how you do it. Full trust.
Actually, pretty much the opposite.
I have been making informed decisions to risk buying new technologies and equipment since about 1970, eyes wide open.
Some times its completely without problems.
Other times, I have had to kludge, repair, and adapt.
When I do this, I am basing my decisions on the history and the facts- and, for instance, when I was a very early adopter of cordless drills, in the late 70s, and bought the then new and revolutionary Makita 7.2 volt system, many people I knew just shook their heads at me. I stitll have a bright orange Makita 6010d in a drawer somewhere, just like Tesla, that thing was a controversial game changer, and the naysayers have all long since been proven wrong.
Compared to today's standards, those drills were not extraordinarily powerful, and they were definitely more expensive than corded drills at that time. But they were amazing, and I loved em.
Of course I upgraded to 9 volts when it came out, and now, 40 plus years later, I run mostly 18volt cordless for drilling, driving, and tapping.
No "trust" was involved- just the idea that taking a pretty slight risk ended up saving time, money, and frustrations.
The reason I used the CVT as an example is because its actually a really similar situation to electric cars.
The CVT was, indeed, invented in 1890 or so. The first commercial electric cars were 30 years old at that time.
Neither is "new".
DAF, in europe, was selling CVT's as the only option in their cars starting in the late 50s.
The big auto companies started coming out with products using CVT's in the late 80s- Ford had a Fiesta with one, and by the early 90s, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and others were all selling production models in the USA. Mercedes has offered a CVT since the early 2000's.
And yet, as recently as 2 or 3 years ago, you can still find articles in mainstream media in the USA, questioning whether Honda is crazy to offer a CVT.
(And my Honda Fit, which has the CVT, has one that is a belt and two expandable pulleys. It routinely gets 40 to 45mpg.)
Its a pretty exact parallel to electric cars-
GM was selling (or leasing) a production electric car 20 plus years ago.
There have been quite a few production models from a variety of manufacturers for over ten years now.
But, just like CVT's, we keep seeing silly articles claiming its new, unknown, potentially dangerous, and just weird and unamerican.
Nobody is saying, you, or anybody, HAS to buy an electric car.
Dont. Evaluate. "Do your own Research" by watching youtube videos.
My point is simple- at this point, its a mature technology, and its becoming cost competitive with ICE cars, and within 5 years, will be cheaper.
Its convenient, its lower maintenance, and the people that are buying them are now mostly doing so for practicality and economical reasons, not for trendiness.
NYC just ordered 150 Mustang electric SUV's for delivery this year for Police Cars. Thats not an experiment- thats ordering a Big 3, mainstream car, for practical reasons, and fully expecting that it will cost them less per mile to run.
These Mustangs are not "highly expensive"- they are about the same price as the SUV"s that police departments all over the country buy every year.
(Nobody has made a 4 door sedan suitable for a cop car, with a V8, for a few years now- the last one was the Taurus, discontinued 3 years ago)
Electric buses for cities are going to be the same price as diesel ones- just cheaper to maintain.
Electric garbage trucks, or beer delivery trucks, or Amazon delivery vans, are all going to be bought because they are the same price or cheaper to buy, and then save money every mile you drive em.
The people who evaluate for a living, who crunch much bigger numbers than I ever do, have been evaluating the economics of electric trucks, and they are all in.
The numbers dont lie.
Amazon has 100,000 electric vans on order.
UPS has 10,000 electric trucks on order.
The Peterbilt and Kenworth class 6's are going to sell themselves.
I am not an "enthusiast"- I bought all the tech I bought to make money- been running my own business since I quit my day job in 1978, and to be competitive, you gotta be up to date. So my mindset about new things is based on experience, and being prepared to repair and adapt every thing I own.