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  • Yeah and that’s why I’m not advocating for 100 year cars.

    I’d be pretty happy with 20 years to, but 10 just feels like planned obsolescence.

    I also messed around with the math very loosly, and only accounting for crashes that total a car, they could be expected to go 20 years or more on average.

    And that’s now with all the terrible driving that happens, especially at night. With slight deacrease in accident frequncy that number can increase a lot.

    So maybe 30 is a bit much for now, but I’d still like an ev that would claim to last 20 yeara.



  • But you still have it backwards.

    We could very easily design and build a car that lasts 30 years. But we don’t, because manufacturers don’t want them to last that long.

    Evs don’t have transmissions, or complicated engines, and the wear on brakes is much less with regenerative braking.

    Other things like air conditioning and interior coverings could be easily servicable

    Why should the life of an ev by limited by its battery?