You cant compare this to importing sufficient spare parts. It is the responsibility of the agent and the manufacturer.This is how new things get sorted out - someone had to suck it up, on behalf of the rest..
"Let’s go back in time to when this craze began. The first car to enter Sri Lanka was an 8 HP Single Cylinder Rover automobile brought down by Edgar Money in 1902. During this time, the roads were barely built and poorly linked only the key towns around the island, but the quality and the length of the roads grew significantly between the 1940s and 1960s and are continuing to improve today".
https://archive.roar.media/english/...history-of-modern-transportation-in-sri-lanka
EVs were introduced to Sri Lanka in 2010's.
. waiting until that happens