▲ | mindslight 2 days ago | |
As someone who is half in the market for a new vehicle, this is exactly where my thoughts went to. If I buy a car, I'm expecting that to be a 10-20 year purchase. Whereas the surveillance industry's churn culture considers five years of software support for a cell phone as some kind of amazing thing. And since more of an EV has been newly designed around software control (including the chief wear part, the battery), I would expect them to be much more wed to that disposability culture overall. Am I going to be able to get a new battery for a 20 year old EV at a market-competitive (with other cell packs) price? | ||
▲ | rootusrootus a day ago | parent [-] | |
Most non-Tesla EVs aren't notably different from a software/surveillance perspective than the comparable ICE car. |