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minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoThe battery doesn’t have to fail for the car to be useless. One of those circuit boards that holds it all together goes and it’s “whoops, we don’t make that any more”.
minus-squareSightline@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoSo just like a regular car.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoIndeed just like a regular car. If cars lasted forever, they’d all go out of business within 20 years.
The battery doesn’t have to fail for the car to be useless. One of those circuit boards that holds it all together goes and it’s “whoops, we don’t make that any more”.
So just like a regular car.
Indeed just like a regular car.
If cars lasted forever, they’d all go out of business within 20 years.