HOLY CRAP! Don't I feel like a dinosaur? Register a battery? Monitor the battery for temp and current?

I've never heard of such a thing? Indeed, it was never thought of as a consideration. I've seen circuits where the clock will blink when the battery gets weak so the operator sees that the conditions exist that might make the vehicle unreliable -- an advance warning that the battery needs to be replaced. This is new to me, IBS.

Register the new battery before it works. What will they think of next?

I kinda, sorta, understand what's happening here, I just did not think that in an automotive environment that it would be useful or desirable. But, they are monitoring electronics in a system that is becoming more and more sophisticated, and anomalies in the electrical supply can prove to be problematic. My inner-dinosaur says to drop the new battery in and connect it, and drive happy. Register the battery with the main computer system so the health and well being can be benchmarked is new.

Interesting.